| Por A. Bebbington and D. Bebbington | Publicado en Neoliberalismo, minería y las luchas por el territorio: Actores, estrategias y alternativas. Editado por J. de Echave, R. Hoetmer y M. Palacios. Lima: CONACAMI, Programa Democracia y Transformación Global, and Cooperación (Reempresión de un articulo en Iconos). | Resumen: Este artículo identifica cinco tipos de ambientalismos que están presentes […]
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Development: Social capital
| By Anthony Bebbington | Published in the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, pp 165-170. Edited by N. Thrift and R. Kitchin. Oxford: Elsevier. | Abstract: The concept of social capital generally refers to the assets that reside within social actors’ relationships. These assets are understood as constituting an important part of people’s identities, livelihood and political strategies, […]
The New Extraction? Rewriting the Political Ecology of the Andes?
| By Anthony Bebbington | Published in NACLA Report on the Americas, 42(5) September/October, pp. 12-20. | | Reprinted, 2013 in P. Vandergeest (ed.) World Geography. Pearson. | Excerpt: On June 5, two months of gathering indigenous protest across the Peruvian Amazon culminated in one of the country’s most tragic moments in many a year. Several thousand indigenous and non-indigenous […]
Institutional challenges for mining and sustainability in Peru
| By A. Bebbington and J. Bury | Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106:17296-17301 | | Official website and full text | Abstract: Global consumption continues to generate growth in mining. In lesser developed economies, this growth offers the potential to generate new resources for development, but also creates challenges to […]
Conflictos mineros: freno al desarrollo o expresión ciudadana
| Por A. Bebbington y M. Burneo | Pobreza, Desigualdad y Desarrollo en el Peru. Informe Anual: 2007-2008, pp. 44-51. Editado por Oxfam GB. Lima: Oxfam. | | Texto completo (PDF) | Extracto: ¿Por qué es tan difícil tener discusiones sensatas en torno a los conflictos mineros en el Perú? ¿Por qué estos debates siempre se definen en términos de dicotomías que, por […]
Actores y ambientalismos: Continuidades & cambios en los conflictos socio-ambientales en el Perú
| Por A. Bebbington y D. Bebbington | Publicado en Iconos, vol. 35: 117-128 | Resumen: Este artículo identifica cinco tipos de ambientalismos que están presentes en los conflictos mineros en el Perú: el conservacionista, el nacionalista-populista, el de defensa de las formas de vida, el de justicia socio-ambiental y el ecologismo profundo. Se sugiere que cada ambientalismo […]
The World Development Report 2009 ‘reshapes economic geography’: geographical reflections
| By J. Rigg, A. Bebbington, K.Gough, D. Bryceson, J. Agergaard, N.Fold, Cecilia Tacoli | Published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 34 (2): 128-136 | | Full text (PDF) | Introduction: By and large, geographers have had little to say about the World Bank’s annual flagship World Development Reports (WDRs). However, with the just published WDR 2009 […]
Latin America: contesting extraction, producing geographies
| By Anthony Bebbington | Published in the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 30(1): 7-12 | Abstract: Characterizing continents is the business of fools, inviting the charge of essentialization, overgeneralization, and caricature of nuanced and complex processes varying across space and over time. Likewise it can attract the criticism that to privilege the national or the regional […]
Contesting environmental transformation: political ecologies and environmentalisms in Latin America and the Caribbean
| By Anthony Bebbington | Published in Latin American Research Review, 44(3): 177-186 | | Full text (PDF) |
Please Mr. Bebbington, don’t come here and tell us what to do
| By Anthony Bebbington | Antipode, 41(1): 190-193 | | Full text (PDF) |