The book explores the implications of extractive industry for ideas of nature, region, and nation “resource nationalism” and environmental governance conservation, territory, and indigenous livelihoods in the Amazon and Andes everyday life and livelihood in areas affected by small- and large-scale mining alike and overall patterns of social mobilization across the region. In this analysis, more than a dozen experts explore the many facets of struggles surrounding extraction, from protests in the vicinity of extractive operations to the everyday efforts of excluded residents who try to adapt their livelihoods while industries profoundly impact their lived spaces.
The first analytical collection to combine geographical and political ecological approaches to the post-1990s changes in Latin America’s extractive economy, Subterranean Struggles closely examines the factors driving this expansion and the sociopolitical, environmental, and political economic consequences it has wrought. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, the extraction of nonrenewable resources in Latin America has given rise to many forms of struggle, particularly among disadvantaged populations. This book was released on with total page 362 pages. Book Synopsis Subterranean Struggles by : Anthony Bebbingtonĭownload or read book Subterranean Struggles written by Anthony Bebbington and published by University of Texas Press.
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