Post-frontier Resource Governance
Subtitle: Indigenous Rights, Extraction and Conservation in the Peruvian Amazon
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Apr 28, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781137381842
Description: "The 20th century saw an unprecedented scramble for resources, reaching the most remote corners of the world. Simultaneously, a quiet revolution has taken place with environmental protection, land and community rights regimes gradually taking hold, albeit unevenly, across the global South. Institutional topographies and policies have never before appeared as green and socially inclusive, yet they coexist with a deepening socio-environmental crisis. Intensified pressures stand in contrast to, persist and even thrive under new environmental and social protection measures. The author offers an anthropological analysis of the paradox. Building on the concept of post-frontier governance, he portrays the host of new regulatory technologies, practices and institutions that nominally close, yet more accurately characterize and restructure, contemporary resource frontiers. This book examines these arrangements ethnographically in the Peruvian Amazon focusing on the Yánesha people and their involvement with the organization and protected area planning, logging and oil development." -- Back cover.
Notes: Source title: Post-frontier Resource Governance: Indigenous Rights, Extraction and Conservation in the Peruvian Amazon (International Relations and Development Series)