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Understanding ExtrACTIVISM - Culture and Power in Natural Resource Disputes (Paperback)
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Understanding ExtrACTIVISM - Culture and Power in Natural Resource Disputes (Paperback)
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Understanding ExtrACTIVISM surveys how contemporary resource
extractive industry works and considers the responses it inspires
in local citizens and activists. Chapters cover a range of
extractive industries operating around the world, including
logging, hydroelectric dams, mining, and oil and natural gas
extraction. Taking an activist anthropological stance, Anna Willow
examines how culture and power inform recent and ongoing disputes
between projects' proponents and opponents, beneficiaries and
victims. Through a series of engaging case studies, she argues that
diverse contemporary natural resource conflicts are underlain by a
culturally constituted 'extractivist' mind-set and embedded in
global patterns of political inequity. Offering a synthesizing
framework for making sense of complex interconnections among
environmental, social, and political dimensions of natural resource
disputes, Willow reflects on why extractivism exists, why it
matters, and what we might be able to do about it. The book is
valuable reading for students and researchers in the environmental
social sciences as well as for activists and practitioners.
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