Gebundenes Buch

Neoextractivism and Territorial Disputes in Latin America

Social-ecological Conflict and Resistance on the Front Lines

Herausgeber: Anthias, Penelope; López Flores, Pabel C.

Beschreibung

This book reflects on the continuing expansion of extractive forms of capitalist development into new territories in Latin America, and the resistance movements that are trying to combat the ecological and social destruction that follows and will interest those in the fields of international development, ecology, anthropology and geography.

Autor

Penelope Anthias is Assistant Professor in Human Geography at Durham University, UK. Her research investigates struggles over territory, resources and citizenship in Bolivia based on long-term ethnographic and participatory research with Indigenous and peasant communities. She is the author of Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco (Cornell University Press, 2018), a Spanish translation of which was recently published in Bolivia (Plural Editores, 2022). In 2022, she directed and produced Tariquía no se toca, a documentary film on women's resistance to hydrocarbon development in the Tariquía National Reserve of Flora and Fauna. She has a PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge (2014) and completed postdoctoral positions at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Copenhagen. Pabel C. López Flores is Bolivian-Italian social researcher, with a PhD in Sociology at Scuola Normale Superiore/University of Milan 'Bicocca' (Italy). He is Associate Researcher in Postgraduate in Development Sciences, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés CIDES-UMSA (Bolivia) and distinguished visiting researcher at the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Sevilla, IEALC-US (Spain). His current research interests include fields of political sociology, sociology of social movements and sociology of territory, in a trans-disciplinary perspective.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Critical Development Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781032212388
• ISBN-10: 1032212381
• Artikelnr.: 68102546