Overview
- Analyses how far, and in which ways, resource struggles are shaped by, and have an impact on, state-society relations
- Empirically explore recent struggles over large-scale land use changes
- Provokes debate about the interdependencies of extractivism, contestation and state-society relations
Part of the book series: Development, Justice and Citizenship (SIID)
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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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Table of contents (11 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bettina Engels is Junior Professor for Conflict and African Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Together with Kristina Dietz, she is head of the junior research group ‘Global Change – Local Conflicts?’. Her research focuses on conflict over land and resources, spatial and action theory, and resistance, urban protest, and social movements in Africa.
Kristina Dietz is head of the junior research group ‘Global Change – Local Conflicts? conflicts over land in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa in the context of interdependent transformation processes’ at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Her research and teaching focus on political ecology, conflicts over land and resources in Latin America, climate and energy policy, spatial and democracy theory.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contested Extractivism, Society and the State
Book Subtitle: Struggles over Mining and Land
Editors: Bettina Engels, Kristina Dietz
Series Title: Development, Justice and Citizenship
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58811-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58810-4Published: 28 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-93377-8Published: 21 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58811-1Published: 21 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-3599
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3602
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 273
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Communication, Development Theory, Ecology, Democracy, Sustainable Development, Natural Resources