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This book explores how different corporate governance strategies
affect community mobilization and the scope for influence when an
area's population is faced with the arrival of the extraction
industry. Drawing on ethnographic research into Peruvian mining
localities, the author analyses a series of relationships which are
characterized by confrontations, clientelism, demobilization and
strategic collaboration. By presenting a detailed account of micro
practices and showing how these processes are interpreted by
different groups, Gustafsson offers a refined understanding of the
multiple layers and informal workings of power between
transnational corporations and local communities.
The scholarly debate on deliberative democracy often suggests that
participatory processes will contribute to make environmental
governance not only more legitimate and effective, but also lead to
the empowerment of marginalized social groups. Critical studies,
however, analyse how technologies of governance make use of
participation to draw boundaries that separate technical knowledge
from political concerns, direct the focus towards procedural
aspects and contractual obligations, and reinforce hegemonic
understandings of development and of local people's relationships
to their environment. This book focuses on the dynamics and use of
participatory mechanisms related to the rapid expansion of the
extractive industries worldwide and the ways it increasingly
affects sensitive natural environments populated by indigenous and
other marginalized populations. Nine empirically grounded case
studies analyse a range of participatory practices ranging from
state-led and corporation-led processes like prior consultation and
Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), compensation practices,
participatory planning exercises and the participation in
environmental impact assessments (EIAs), to community-led
consultations, community-based FPIC and EIA processes and struggles
for community-based governance of natural resource uses. The book
provides new insights through a combination of different
theoretical strands, which help to scrutinize the limits to
deliberation and empowerment on the one hand, and on the other hand
to understand the political resistance potential that alternative
uses of participatory mechanisms can generate. The chapters
originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
The scholarly debate on deliberative democracy often suggests that
participatory processes will contribute to make environmental
governance not only more legitimate and effective, but also lead to
the empowerment of marginalized social groups. Critical studies,
however, analyse how technologies of governance make use of
participation to draw boundaries that separate technical knowledge
from political concerns, direct the focus towards procedural
aspects and contractual obligations, and reinforce hegemonic
understandings of development and of local people's relationships
to their environment. This book focuses on the dynamics and use of
participatory mechanisms related to the rapid expansion of the
extractive industries worldwide and the ways it increasingly
affects sensitive natural environments populated by indigenous and
other marginalized populations. Nine empirically grounded case
studies analyse a range of participatory practices ranging from
state-led and corporation-led processes like prior consultation and
Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), compensation practices,
participatory planning exercises and the participation in
environmental impact assessments (EIAs), to community-led
consultations, community-based FPIC and EIA processes and struggles
for community-based governance of natural resource uses. The book
provides new insights through a combination of different
theoretical strands, which help to scrutinize the limits to
deliberation and empowerment on the one hand, and on the other hand
to understand the political resistance potential that alternative
uses of participatory mechanisms can generate. The chapters
originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
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