Thanks to the CLACS Summer Travel Fellowship in 2014 I to traveled to Colombia and conducted preliminary fieldwork on my dissertation, which focuses in the conflicts and interactions between human rights advocates, grassroots organizations, aid agencies, NGOs and multilateral institutions for the creation of emblematic cases of human rights related to mining industries. During this time my main objective was to map the different networks, sites and actors that are involved in discussing the relevance of cases and the circumstances that define their importance. I interviewed lawyers, activists, scholars and different bureaucrats about their relation to human rights cases and their role in defining their transnational relevance. Likewise, I attended different meetings, assemblies and public debates in which the relation between human rights and mining extraction was discussed. Finally, I was able to gather important documents on the topics of my dissertation from social movements and NGOs, which helped me to understand with more clarity the different political, economic and moral articulations that are at stake in making emblematic cases in contexts of violence like Colombia.