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Contentious agency and natural resource politics

by Kroger, Markus

fromRethinking globalizations

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The looming depletion of non-renewable resources has increased the global land grab in the past decade. So far however, the question of how and when people can influence economic outcomes has received little attention in the study of social movements. Based on in-depth ethnograp…

Places of possibility: property, nature and community land ownership

by Mackenzie, A. Fiona D.

fromAntipode book series

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Through original research conducted in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, Places of Possibility shows how community land ownership can open up the political, social, environmental, and economic terrain to more socially just and sustainable possibilities than private ownership. Reveal…

Natural resources and social conflict: towards critical environmental security

fromInternational political economy series

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This volume brings together international scholars reflecting on the theory and practice of international security, human security, natural resources and environmental change. It contributes by 'centring the margins' and privileging alternative conceptions and understandings of …

Governing extractive industries: politics, histories, ideas

by Bebbington, Anthony

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This book synthesizes findings regarding the political drivers of institutional change in extractive industry governance. It analyses resource governance from the late nineteenth century to the present in Bolivia, Ghana, Peru, and Zambia, focusing on the ways in which resource g…