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For many countries, primarily in the Global South, extractivism –
the exploiting and exporting of natural resources – is big
business. For those exporting countries, natural resource rents
create hope and promise for development which can be a seductive
force. This book explores the depth of extractivism in economies
around the world. The contributions to this book investigate the
connection between the political economy of extractivism and its
impact on the sociopolitical fabric of natural resource exporting
societies in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. The
book engages with a comparative perspective on the persistence of
extractivism in these four different world regions. The book
focuses on the formative power of rents and argues that rents are
seductive. The individual contributions flesh out this seductive
force of rents on different political scales and how this seduction
affects a variety of actors. The book investigates how these actors
react to the prevalence of rent, how they align or break with
specific political and economic strategies, and how myths of
resource-driven development play out on the ground. The book,
therefore, underlines that rent theory bridges current debates in
different area communities and offers fresh insights into
extractivist societies’ social, economic, and political dynamics.
This book will be of significant interest to readers in political
economy, political science, development studies, and area studies.
This book combines Hartmut Elsenhans' ideas on the laws of motion
of capitalism and his approach to world system analysis and rent
theory, his thoughts on development theory and finally,
international relations and the past, present, and future dynamics
of the international system. Hartmut Elsenhans shows that
capitalist growth depends on rising mass incomes and on the
strength of labor unions and their bargaining power. This
alternative approach challenges mainstream assumptions on
capitalism, growth, and development by both leading leftist
authors, such as David Harvey, Immanuel Wallerstein, Andre Gunder
Frank or Samir Amin, as well as by neoclassical economists and
western institutionalist political and social scientists. Hartmut
Elsenhans offers a unique approach to understand the dynamics of
capitalism as well as the prospects for development. This
Festschrift brings together his major contributions on these topics
that were initially never or only published in German or French.
Where do the Americas begin, and where do they end? What is the
relationship between the spatial constructions of "area" and
"continent"? How were the Americas imagined by different actors in
different historical periods, and how were these imaginations - as
continent, nation, region - guided by changing agendas and
priorities? This interdisciplinary volume addresses competing and
conflicting configurations and narratives of spatialization in the
context of globalization processes from the 19th century to the
present.
This book highlights historical explanations to and roots of
present phenomena of violence, insecurity, and law enforcement in
Central America. Violence and crime are among the most discussed
topics in Central America today, and sensationalism and fear of
crime is as present as the increase of private security, the
re-militarization of law enforcement, political populism, and mano
dura policies. The contributors to this volume discuss historical
forms, paths, continuities, and changes of violence and its public
and political discussion in the region. This book thus offers
in-depth analysis of different patterns of violence, their
reproduction over time, their articulation in the present, and
finally their discursive mobilization.
This book combines Hartmut Elsenhans' ideas on the laws of motion
of capitalism and his approach to world system analysis and rent
theory, his thoughts on development theory and finally,
international relations and the past, present, and future dynamics
of the international system. Hartmut Elsenhans shows that
capitalist growth depends on rising mass incomes and on the
strength of labor unions and their bargaining power. This
alternative approach challenges mainstream assumptions on
capitalism, growth, and development by both leading leftist
authors, such as David Harvey, Immanuel Wallerstein, Andre Gunder
Frank or Samir Amin, as well as by neoclassical economists and
western institutionalist political and social scientists. Hartmut
Elsenhans offers a unique approach to understand the dynamics of
capitalism as well as the prospects for development. This
Festschrift brings together his major contributions on these topics
that were initially never or only published in German or French.
This book develops a comparative study on violence in Jamaica, El
Salvador, and Belize based on a theoretical approach, extensive
field research, and in-depth empirical research. It combines the
Caribbean and Central America into a single comparative research
that explores the historical (from the conquista onwards) as well
as contemporary causes of violence in these societies. The volume
focuses on forms of violence such as gang violence, police
violence, every day forms of violence, vigilantism, and organized
crime. The analysis provides a theoretical perspective that bridges
political economy as well as cultural approaches in violence
research. As such, it will be of interest to readers studying
development, violence, political, Central American, and Caribbean
studies.
This book develops a comparative study on violence in Jamaica, El
Salvador, and Belize based on a theoretical approach, extensive
field research, and in-depth empirical research. It combines the
Caribbean and Central America into a single comparative research
that explores the historical (from the conquista onwards) as well
as contemporary causes of violence in these societies. The volume
focuses on forms of violence such as gang violence, police
violence, every day forms of violence, vigilantism, and organized
crime. The analysis provides a theoretical perspective that bridges
political economy as well as cultural approaches in violence
research. As such, it will be of interest to readers studying
development, violence, political, Central American, and Caribbean
studies.
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