Bettina (Hrsg.) Engels

Contested Extractivism, Society and the State

Struggles over Mining and Land

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Dietz, Kristina (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-137-58811-1
EAN: 9781137588111
Produktnummer: 22405995
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 273 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 2'587 KB
Auflage: 1st ed. 2017
Abbildungen: 2 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, Bibliographie

Über den Autor

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.