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This book aims to move the discussion out of the western framework
and invert it to reveal and promote the indigenous perspective and
practices that are currently taking hold globally. For too long
Indigenous development has been written about by situating
Indigenous peoples in a deficit/dependency persona/contexts and
this book seeks to redress this imbalance The book has a broad
scope and flows well across multi-disciplinary areas, covering a
wide scope of theoretical and applied research examining the
challenges experienced around the sub-topics that make up
Indigenous development. The only comprehensive volume that brings
together the voices, experiences and imaginations of those working
and commited to the topic of indigenous development
Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance
emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural
resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life.
Chronicling the increasing rates of brutal suppression of local
environmental and labor activists in rural and urban sites of
extraction, this volume also foregrounds related violence in areas
we might not expect, such as infrastructural developments,
protected areas for nature conservation, and even geoengineering in
the name of carbon mitigation. Contributors argue that extractive
violence is not an accident or side effect, but rather a core logic
of the 21st Century planetary experience. Acknowledgement is made
not only of the visible violence involved in the securitization of
extractive enclaves, but also of the symbolic and structural
violence that the governance, economics, and governmentality of
extraction have produced. Extractive violence is shown not only to
be a spectacular event, but an extended dynamic that can be silent,
invisible, and gradual. The volume also recognizes that much of the
new violence of extraction has become cloaked in the discourse of
"green development," "green building," and efforts to mitigate the
planetary environmental crisis through totalizing technologies.
Ironically, green technologies and other contemporary efforts to
tackle environmental ills often themselves depend on the
continuance of social exploitation and the contaminating practices
of non-renewable extraction. But as this volume shows, resistance
is also as multi-scalar and heterogeneous as the violence it
inspires. The book is essential reading for activists and for
students and scholars of environmental politics, natural resource
management, political ecology, sustainable development, and
globalization.
Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance
emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural
resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life.
Chronicling the increasing rates of brutal suppression of local
environmental and labor activists in rural and urban sites of
extraction, this volume also foregrounds related violence in areas
we might not expect, such as infrastructural developments,
protected areas for nature conservation, and even geoengineering in
the name of carbon mitigation. Contributors argue that extractive
violence is not an accident or side effect, but rather a core logic
of the 21st Century planetary experience. Acknowledgement is made
not only of the visible violence involved in the securitization of
extractive enclaves, but also of the symbolic and structural
violence that the governance, economics, and governmentality of
extraction have produced. Extractive violence is shown not only to
be a spectacular event, but an extended dynamic that can be silent,
invisible, and gradual. The volume also recognizes that much of the
new violence of extraction has become cloaked in the discourse of
"green development," "green building," and efforts to mitigate the
planetary environmental crisis through totalizing technologies.
Ironically, green technologies and other contemporary efforts to
tackle environmental ills often themselves depend on the
continuance of social exploitation and the contaminating practices
of non-renewable extraction. But as this volume shows, resistance
is also as multi-scalar and heterogeneous as the violence it
inspires. The book is essential reading for activists and for
students and scholars of environmental politics, natural resource
management, political ecology, sustainable development, and
globalization.
Sovereignty is a significant force regarding the ownership, use,
protection and management of natural resources. By placing an
emphasis on the complex intertwined relationship between natural
resources and diverse claims to resource sovereignty, this book
reveals the backstory of contemporary resource contestations in
Latin America and their positioning within a more extensive history
of extraction in the region. Exploring cases of resource
contestation in Bolivia, Colombia and Guatemala, Sovereign Forces
highlights the value of these relationships to the practice of
environmental governance and peacebuilding in the region.
Sovereignty is a significant force regarding the ownership, use,
protection and management of natural resources. By placing an
emphasis on the complex intertwined relationship between natural
resources and diverse claims to resource sovereignty, this book
reveals the backstory of contemporary resource contestations in
Latin America and their positioning within a more extensive history
of extraction in the region. Exploring cases of resource
contestation in Bolivia, Colombia and Guatemala, Sovereign Forces
highlights the value of these relationships to the practice of
environmental governance and peacebuilding in the region.
Since 9/11 ideas of security have focused in part on the
development of ungovernable spaces. Important debates are now being
had over the nature, impacts, and outcomes of the numerous policy
statements made by northern governments, NGOs, and international
institutions that view the merging of security with development as
both unproblematic and progressive. This volume addresses this new
security-development nexus and investigates internal institutional
logics, as well as the operation of policy, its dangers,
resistances and complicity with other local and national social
processes. Drawing on detailed ethnography, the contributors offer
new vantage points to understand the workings of multiple,
intersecting, and conflicting power structures, which whilst local,
are tied to non-local systems and operate across time. This volume
is a necessary critique and extension of key themes integral to the
security- development nexus debate, highlighting the importance of
a situated and substantive understanding of human security.
In the global North the commoditization of creativity and knowledge
under the banner of a creative economy is being posed as the
post-industrial answer to dependency on labour and natural
resources. Not only does it promise a more stable and sustainable
future, but an economy focused on intellectual property is more
environmentally friendly, so it is suggested. Contested Powers
argues that the fixes being offered by this model are bluffs;
development as witnessed in Latin American energy politics and
governance remains hindered by a global division of labour and
nature that puts the capacity for technological advancement in
private hands. The authors call for a multi-layered understanding
of sovereignty, arguing that it holds the key to undermining rigid
accounts of the relationship between carbon and democracy, energy
and development, and energy and political expression. Furthermore,
a critical focus on energy politics is crucial to wider debates on
development and sustainability. Contested Powers is essential
reading for those wondering how energy resources are converted into
political power and why we still value the energy we take from our
surroundings more than the means of its extraction.
This book brings together two of today's leading concerns in
development policy - the urgent need to prioritize poverty
reduction and the particular circumstances of indigenous peoples in
both developing and industrialized countries. The contributors
analyse patterns of indigenous disadvantage worldwide, the
centrality of the right to self-determination, and indigenous
people's own diverse perspectives on development. Several
fundamental and difficult questions are explored, including the
right balance to be struck between autonomy and participation, and
the tension between a new wave of assimilationism in the guise of
'pro-poor' and 'inclusionary' development policies and the fact
that such policies may in fact provide new spaces for indigenous
peoples to advance their demands. In this regard, one overall
conclusion that emerges is that both differences and commonalities
must be recognised in any realistic study of indigenous poverty.
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