| By Anthony Bebbington | Published in America’s Quarterly, 7(1): 112-118 | Headnote: Community distrust and regional conflict over resource exploitation have been on the rise. Can they be constructively channeled for positive change or are they just a sign of more things to come?
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Negotiable Differences? Conflicts Over Mining and Development in South East Ecuador
| By X. Warnaars and A Bebbington | Published in Natural Resource Extraction and Indigenous Livelihoods: Development Challenges in an Era of Globalisation. Edited by G. Hilson and E. Gilberthorpe. London: Ashgate. |
Conclusions
| By A. Bebbington and J. Bury | Published in Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil and Gas in Latin America. Edited by A. Bebbington and J. Bury. Austin: University of Texas Press. | Excerpt: In Chapter 1 of this book we made several strong claims regarding the relationships between the subsoil and Latin American political […]
Anatomies of Conflict: Social Mobilization and New Political Ecologies of the Andes
| By A. Bebbington, D. Humphreys Bebbington, J. Bury, L. Hinojosa and M.L. Burneo | Published in Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil and Gas in Latin America. Edited by A. Bebbington and J. Bury. Austin: University of Texas Press. | Excerpt: In this chapter, we discuss findings from a large-scale comparative research program studying […]
Hydrocarbon Conflicts and Indigenous Peoples in the Peruvian Amazon: Mobilization and Negotiation along the Río Corrientes
| By A. Bebbington and M. Scurrah | Published in Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil and Gas in Latin America. Edited by A. Bebbington and J.Bury. Austin: University of Texas Press. Excerpt: The Peruvian Amazon was the scene of significant mobilization and violence during the 2000s, with concerns over extractive industries at the very […]
New Geographies of Extractive Industries in Latin America
| By J. Bury and A. Bebbington | Published in Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil and Gas in Latin America. Edited by A. Bebbington and J.Bury. Austin: University of Texas Press | Excerpt: Shortly after midnight on Friday, October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus and his expeditionary force of three ships first hove into view of the […]
Political Ecologies of the Subsoil
| By A. Bebbington and J. Bury | Published in Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil and Gas in Latin America. Edited by A. Bebbington and J.Bury. Austin: University of Texas Press. | Excerpt: If the 2009 box- office hit Avatar showed anything, it was that the political ecology of the subsoil can make for great commercial […]
Social Conflict, Economic Development and Extractive Industry: Evidence from South America
| Edited by Anthony Bebbington | Published by Routledge, London | | Official webpage and purchasing options | The extraction of minerals, oil and gas has a long and ambiguous history in development processes – in North America, Europe, Latin America and Australasia. Extraction has yielded wealth, regional identities and in some cases capital for […]
Underground political ecologies
| By Anthony Bebbington | Published by Geoforum 43(6): 1152-1162 | Reprinted in German in 2013, in Peripherie 132: 402-424 (Berlin) | Abstract: Based on the 2011 Annual Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group Lecture, this paper makes the case for a political ecology of the subsoil. Arguing that subsoil resources have received comparatively little attention within […]
Conclusions
| By Anthony Bebbington | Published in Extractive Industries, Social Conflict and Economic Development: Evidence from South America, pp. 214-225. Edited by A. Bebbington. London: Routledge. |