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Political Economies of Extractive Industry: From Documenting Complexity to Informing Current Debates

| By A. Bebbington, T. Bornschlegl, A. Johnson | Published by Development and Change, 30 September, 2013 | Abstract: The literature on extractive industries has grown rapidly in recent years both because the empirical significance of resource extraction has increased and because resource extraction necessarily invokes other questions of wider purchase in development studies. This virtual issue […]

An Andean Avatar: Post-neoliberal and neoliberal strategies for securing the unobtainable

| By A Bebbington and D. Humphreys Bebbington | Published in  New Political Economy 15(4): 131-145 | | Full text | Abstract: Recent years have seen increasingly aggressive expansion of extractive industry in the Andean-Amazonian region. Reminiscent of the film Avatar, this expansion drives conflicts over land, territory and political control of space. This expansion is […]

Transnational corporations and transnational civil society

| By L. Hinojosa V. and A. Bebbington | Published in The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism: The Collapse of an Economic Order? Edited by K. Birch and V. Mykhnenko. London: Zed. | | Full text (PDF) | Excerpt: At the time of writing (June 2009) the Peruvian government was in the midst of its worst political […]