The politics of resource extraction
Subtitle: indigenous peoples, multinational corporations and the state
By: edited by Suzana Sawyer, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, USA, Edmund Terence Gomez, Professor of Political Economy, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780230347724
Subjects: Politics and government; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions; Indigenous people; Government policy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy; Business and politics; International business enterprises; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; Mineral industries
Description: "International institutions (United Nations, World Bank) and multinational companies have voiced concern over the adverse impact of resource extraction activities on the livelihood of indigenous communities. This volume examines mega resource extraction projects in Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Chad, Cameroon, India, Nigeria, Peru, the Philippines"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Transnational Governmentality in the Context of Resource Extraction; S.Sawyer & E.T.Gomez; title: On Indigenous Identity and a Language of Rights; S.Sawyer& E.T.Gomez; title: State, Capital, Multinational Institutions and Indigenous Peoples; S.Sawyer & E.T.Gomez; title: Indigenous Rights, Mining Corporations and the Australian State; J.Altman; title: Extracting Justice: Natural Gas, Indigenous Mobilization and the Bolivian State; T.Perreault; title: The Broker State and the 'Inevitability' of Progress: The Camisea Project and Indigenous Peoples in Peru; P.Urteaga-Crovetto; title: Development, Power and Identity Politics in the Philippines; R.D.Rovillos & V.Tauli-Corpuz; title: The Nigerian State, Multinational Oil Corporations and the Indigenous Communities of the Niger Delta; B.Naanen; title: Identity, Power and Development: The Kondhs in Orissa, India; V.Xaxa; title: Public-Private Partnership and Institutional Capture: The State, International Institutions and Indigenous Peoples in Chad and Cameroon; K.Horta; title: Identity, Power and Rights: The State, International Institutions and Indigenous Peoples in Canada; M.Davis; title: Attending to the Paradox: Public Governance and Inclusive International Platforms; S.Sawyer & E.T.Gomez; title: Appendix 1: International Conventions and IFI Policies on Indigenous Rights; title: Appendix 2: Cross-Section of Domestic Legislation Pertaining to Indigenous Rights; title: Appendix 3: Legal Institutions and Authorities for the Enforcement of Indigenous Rights.