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Title Subterranean struggles : new dynamics of mining, oil, and gas in Latin America / edited by Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey Bury
Edition First edition
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 343 pages) : illustrations
Series Peter T. Flawn series in natural resources ; number eight
Peter T. Flawn series in natural resource management and conservation ; no. eight.
Contents Front ; Contents; Abbreviations; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. Political Ecologies of the Subsoil (Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey Bury); 2. New Geographies of Extractive Industries in Latin America (Jeffrey Bury and Anthony Bebbington); 3. Nature and Nation: Hydrocarbons, Governance, and the Territorial Logicsof "Resource Nationalism" in Bolivia (Tom Perreault); 4. Rocks, Rangers, and Resistance: Mining and Conservation Frontiers in the Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru (Jeffrey Bury and Timothy Norris)
5. Water for Gold: Confronting State and Corporate Mining Discourses in Azuay, Ecuador (Jennifer Moore and Teresa Velásquez)6. Territorial Transformations in El Pangui, Ecuador: Understanding How Mining Conflict Affects Territorial Dynamics, Social Mobilization, and Daily Life (Ximena S. Warnaars); 7. Hydrocarbon Conflicts and Indigenous Peoples in the Peruvian Amazon: Mobilization and Negotiation Along the Río Corrientes (Anthony Bebbington and Martin Scurrah)
8. Synergistic Impacts of Gas and Mining Development in Bolivia's Chiquitanía: The Significance of Analytical Scale (Derrick Hindery)9. Natural Resources in the Subsoil and Social Conflicts on the Surface: Perspectives on Peru's Subsurface Political Ecology (Julio C. Postigo, Mariana Montoya, and Kenneth R. Young); 10. Anatomies of Conflict: Social Mobilization and New Political Ecologies of the Andes (Anthony Bebbington, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Leonith Hinojosa, María-Luisa Burneo, and Jeffrey Bury); 11. Conclusions (Anthony Bebbington, Jeffrey Bury, and Emily Gallagher); Bibliography
Summary 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 natural science authors, this collection offers a broad synthesis of the dynamics of extractive industry whose relevance stretches to regions beyond Latin America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Mines and mineral resources -- Latin America
Social ecology -- Latin America
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development.
Mines and mineral resources
Social ecology
Bergbau
Mineralischer Rohstoff
Politischer Wandel
Sozialer Konflikt
Latin America
Lateinamerika
Form Electronic book
Author Bebbington, Anthony, 1962- editor.
Bury, Jeffrey, editor.
LC no. 2013008507
ISBN 9780292748637
0292748639