Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America (Peter T. Flawn Series in Natural Resource Management and Con)

New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America (Peter T. Flawn Series in Natural Resource Management and Conservation)

Cover Art for 9781477302064, Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America (Peter T. Flawn Series in Natural Resource Management and Con) by Anthony Bebbington, Jeffrey Bury
ISBN: 9781477302064
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1 November, 2014
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Over the past two decades, the extraction of nonrenewable resources in Latin America has given rise to many forms of struggle, particularly among disadvantaged populations. The first analytical collection to combine geographical and political ecological approaches to the post-1990s changes in Latin America's extractive economy, Subterranean Struggles closely examines the factors driving this expansion and the sociopolitical, environmental, and political economic consequences it has wrought.In this analysis, more than a dozen experts explore the many facets of struggles surrounding extraction, from protests in the vicinity of extractive operations to the everyday efforts of excluded residents who try to adapt their livelihoods while industries profoundly impact their lived spaces. The book explores the implications of extractive industry for ideas of nature, region, and nation; "resource nationalism" and environmental governance; conservation, territory, and indigenous livelihoods in the Amazon and Andes; everyday life and livelihood in areas affected by small- and large-scale mining alike; and overall patterns of social mobilization across the region.Arguing that such struggles are an integral part of the new extractive economy in Latin America, the authors document the increasingly conflictive character of these interactions, raising important challenges for theory, for policy, and for social research methodologies. Featuring works by social and

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