Among women opposing expansion of mining operations in Cajamarca, Peru, narratives of preferred alternatives diverge: from sustainable mining to alternative economic development, to more radical alternatives to ‘development’. In these accounts, both the women's relative powerlessness and agency become apparent. This article critically explores women's views of development and their imaginings of their region with or without mining. I argue that those who opposed mining show a continuing engagement with questions of development in the aftermath of conflict over natural resource extraction, highlighting a common thread of desires for bottom‐up initiatives embracing local knowledge, practice and history.

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是谁的发展？秘鲁Yanacocha矿附近的妇女生活如何设想潜在的未来

在反对扩大秘鲁卡哈马卡采矿活动的妇女中，首选替代方案的叙述各不相同：从可持续采矿到替代性经济发展，再到对“发展”而言更激进的替代方案。在这些说明中，女性的相对无权和代理权都变得显而易见。这篇文章批判性地探讨了妇女的发展观及其在有无采矿的情况下对自己所在地区的想象。我认为，那些反对采矿的人在自然资源开采的冲突之后表现出对发展问题的持续参与，突显了人们对自下而上的倡议的共同思路，其中包括当地的知识，实践和历史。