Contested Extractivism, Society and the State
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Contested Extractivism, Society and the State

Struggles over Mining and Land

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eBook - PDF

Contested Extractivism, Society and the State

Struggles over Mining and Land

About this book

This book empirically discusses recent struggles over land and mining, exploring state-society relations conflicts on various scales. In contrast with the existing literature, analyses in this volume deliberately focus on large-scale land use changes both in relation to the expansion of industrial mining and to agro-industry. The authors contend that there are significant parallels between contestations over different variants of resource extractivism, as they reflect the same global trends and processes. Chapters draw on critical theoretical approaches from political ecology, political economy, spatial theory, contentious politics, and the study of democracy. The authors not only provide empirical insights on actual resource struggles from different world regions based on in-depth field research, but also contribute to theory-building by linking concepts from various critical approaches to one another, developing a perspective for analysing struggles over resources related to current global crisis phenomena.

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Yes, you can access Contested Extractivism, Society and the State by Bettina Engels, Kristina Dietz, Bettina Engels,Kristina Dietz in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Energy Industry. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Preface and Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. Notes on the Contributors
  4. List of Figures
  5. List of Tables
  6. Contested Extractivism, Society and the State: An Introduction
  7. Reimagining Extractivism: Insights from Spatial Theory
  8. Beyond Curse and Blessing: Rentier Society in Venezuela
  9. Ghana – Big Man, Big Envelope, Finish: Chinese Corporate Exploitation in Small-Scale Mining
  10. Small-Scale Gold Mining and the State in the Philippines
  11. Politics of Scale and Struggles over Mining in Colombia
  12. Not All Glitter Is Gold: Mining Conflicts in Burkina Faso
  13. Peasant Movements in Argentina and Brazil
  14. Oil Palm Expansion and Peasant Environmental Justice Struggles in Colombia
  15. Contested Market-Driven Land Reform in Malawi
  16. Contesting Extractivism: Conceptual, Theoretical and Normative Reflections
  17. Index