ABSTRACT Social sciences have documented the economic and social impacts of mining activities on communities around the world, showing mining towns and villages, on the one hand, present high economic growth and, on the other, have problematic quality-of-life indicators. In this article, we present the results of an extensive ethnographic study of one city in northern Chile, Antofagasta, located in a region where about half of the country's total copper production is concentrated. We sociologically explore these trends and document how they are interconnected and configure specific ways of living and inhabiting a place. Far from disproving the problematic relationship between social development and the mining industry, we reflect on the interrelatedness of the impacts of mining projects and suggest analytical clues for an ecological study of mining cities.

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探索采矿社区的日常生活：以智利安托法加斯塔为例

摘要社会科学已经记录了采矿活动对世界各地社区的经济和社会影响，一方面表明采矿城镇和村庄呈现出高速的经济增长，另一方面却显示出不良的生活质量指标。在本文中，我们介绍了对智利北部一个城市安托法加斯塔（Antofagasta）进行的广泛的民族志研究的结果，该城市位于该国大约一半的铜总产量集中的地区。我们从社会学角度探索这些趋势，并记录它们如何相互联系，并配置特定的居住和居住方式。并没有证明社会发展与采矿业之间存在问题的关系，