Natural Resources, Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Latin America - Exploring the Boundaries of Environmental and State-Corporate Crime in Bolivia, Peru, and Mexico (Hardcover)

In 1989, the International Labor Organization stated that all indigenous peoples living in the postcolonial world were entitled to the right to prior consultation, over activities that could potentially impact their territories and traditional livelihoods. However, in many cases the economic importance of industries such as mining and oil condition the way that governments implement the right to prior consultation. This book explores extractive conflicts between indigenous populations, the government and oil and mining companies in Latin America, namely Mexico, Peru and Bolivia. Building on two years of research and drawing on the state-corporate and environmental crime literatures, this book examines the legal, extralegal, illegal as well as political strategies used by the state and extractive companies to avoid undesired results produced by the legalization of the right to prior consultation. It examines the ways in which prior consultation is utilized by powerful indigenous actors to negotiate economic resources with the state and extractive companies, while also showing the ways in which weaker indigenous groups are incapable of engaging in prior consultations in a meaningful way and are therefore left at the mercy of negative ecological impacts. It demonstrates how social mobilization-not prior consultation-is the most effective strategy in preventing extraction from moving forward within ecologically fragile indigenous territories.

General

Imprint:	Crc Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Crimes of the Powerful
Release date:	August 2018
First published:	2019
Authors:	Marcela Torres Wong
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	164
ISBN-13:	978-0-8153-8152-5
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
LSN:	0-8153-8152-2
Barcode:	9780815381525

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