Ideas About Mining in Antioquia. Development, Community Governance and Collective Settings

Abstract

This article addresses the conceptual discussion around the ideas on the subject of the mining industry in
Antioquia. Through a qualitative approach which mixes field experience and conceptual analysis, the article is
based on the mercantile and state failures to promote development and thus it aims to introduce community
governance as an analytical category which allows understanding the community, its attributes and capabilities, particularly, in the context of gold mining. In short, the article presents the analytical elements that allow
the connection between quotidian arrangements and public decision-making processes, namely, microfundament macro-hypotheses to reach scenarios where public policies are the result of collective action.