Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America

Author:   Anthony Bebbington ,  Jeffrey Bury
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Volume:   8
ISBN:  

9781477302064


Pages:   361
Publication Date:   15 November 2013
Format:   Paperback
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Our Price $64.95 Quantity:  
Add to Cart

Share |

Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America


Add your own review!

Overview

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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Anthony Bebbington ,  Jeffrey Bury
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Volume:   8
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781477302064


ISBN 10:   1477302069
Pages:   361
Publication Date:   15 November 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

"Abbreviations Preface and Acknowledgements 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 Logics of ""Resource Nationalism"" in Bolivia (Thomas 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 Contributors Index"

Reviews

If, as the conclusion states, history and memory are again central to how people make sense of contemporary extraction (p. 271), we owe the editors and contributors our gratitude for making sure that history is told in a manner as scholastically rigorous, and conceptually cogent, as possible. Journal of Latin American Geography


If, as the conclusion states, history and memory are again central to how people make sense of contemporary extraction (p. 271), we owe the editors and contributors our gratitude for making sure that history is told in a manner as scholastically rigorous, and conceptually cogent, as possible. -- Benjamin K. Sovacool Journal of Latin American Geography


Author Information

Anthony Bebbington is Director of the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Jeffrey Bury is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions
Latest Reading Guide

lgn

al

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List