In genre-bending Dirtigol, Luis Manuel Claps sets out to document the ‘Esquel effect’, the wave of organised resistance to large-scale industrial mining which spread across Argentina and beyond following a 2003 referendum on the installation of a gold mine in Esquel. Dirtigol, an alter-ego of the author himself, sets off in search of similar movements. <a class="view-article" href="https://soundsandcolours.com/articles/argentina/new-book-on-the-track-of-dirty-gold-follows-stories-of-environmental-resistance-63590/">Read Article</a>