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

Published by University of Texas Press 2013

Subterranean Struggles

New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America

Edited by: Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey Bury

In the series Peter T. Flawn Series in Natural Resource Management and Conservation

https://doi.org/10.7560/748620

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About this book

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.

Author information

Anthony Bebbington is Milton P. and Alice C. Higgins Professor of Environment and Society at Clark University, where he is also Director of the Graduate School of Geography.

Jeffrey Bury is Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where is he also Director of the Center for Integrated Spatial Analysis.

Reviews

"Overall this book is an excellent contribution to the literature . . . it contributes to understanding the contentious and complex processes that entails the pursuit of development in the region."

"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."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface and Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
1. Political Ecologies of the Subsoil Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey Bury Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. New Geographies of Extractive Industries in Latin America Jeffrey Bury and Anthony Bebbington Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
3. Nature and Nation: Hydrocarbons, Governance, and the Territorial Logics of “Resource Nationalism” in Bolivia Tom Perreault Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
4. Rocks, Rangers, and Resistance: Mining and Conservation Frontiers in the Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru Jeffrey Bury and Timothy Norris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
5. Water for Gold: Confronting State and Corporate Mining Discourses in Azuay, Ecuador Jennifer Moore and Teresa Velásquez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
6. Territorial Transformations in El Pangui, Ecuador: Understanding How Mining Conflict Affects Territorial Dynamics, Social Mobilization, and Daily Life Ximena S. Warnaars Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
7. Hydrocarbon Conflicts and Indigenous Peoples in the Peruvian Amazon: Mobilization and Negotiation along the Río Corrientes Anthony Bebbington and Martin Scurrah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
8. Synergistic Impacts of Gas and Mining Development in Bolivia’s Chiquitanía: The Significance of Analytical Scale Derrick Hindery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
11. Conclusions Anthony Bebbington, Jeffrey Bury and Emily Gallagher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333

Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 361

eBook

Published: November 15, 2013
ISBN: 9780292748637