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The Politics of Extraction - Territorial Rights, Participatory Institutions, and Conflict in Latin America (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Extraction - Territorial Rights, Participatory Institutions, and Conflict in Latin America (Hardcover)
Series: STUDIES COMPAR ENERGY ENVIRON POL SERIES
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Mining and hydrocarbon production in Latin America is high-stakes
for extractive firms, communities in resource-rich zones, and
states. Amid global commodity price increases and liberal economic
policies, the sectors have expanded dramatically in recent decades.
This surge has made private investors and governments in the region
ever more committed to extraction. It also has increased alarm
within local communities, which have organized around the
environmental, cultural, and social impacts of mining and
hydrocarbons. Moreover, activists have mobilized to demand material
benefits, in the forms of royalty distributions and direct company
investment in local services and infrastructure. These conflicts
take the form of legal battles, large-scale protests, and standoffs
that pit communities against companies and the state, and
consequently have suspended production, destabilized politics, and
expended state security resources. In The Politics of Extraction,
Maiah Jaskoski looks at how mobilized communities in Latin
America's hydrocarbon and mining regions use participatory
institutions to challenge extraction. In some cases, communities
act within formal participatory spaces, while in others, they
organize "around" or "in reaction to" these institutions, using
participatory procedures as focal points in the escalation of
conflict. Based on analysis of thirty major extractive conflicts in
Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru in the 2000s and 2010s, Jaskoski
examines community uses of public hearings built into environmental
licensing, state-led prior consultation with native communities
affected by large-scale development, and local popular
consultations or referenda. She finds that communities select their
strategies in response to the specific participatory challenges
they confront: the trials of initiating participatory processes,
gaining inclusion in participatory events, and, for communities
with such access, expressing views about extraction at the
participatory stage. Surprisingly, the communities least likely to
channel their concerns through state institutions are the most
unified and have the strongest guarantee of participation.
Including a wealth of data and complex stories, Jaskoski provides
the first systematic study of how participatory institutions either
channel or exacerbate conflict over extraction.
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