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This book explores emergent forms of governance in mining and extractive industry projects around the world.
List of contents
Governing in the Extractive Industries: An Introduction
1. Tendencies in Tension: Resource Governance and Social Contradictions in Contemporary Bolivia
2. Mining, Criminalization, and the Right to Protest: Everyday Constructions of the Post-Neoliberal Ecuadorian State
3. Preserving Illusions: The Rule of Law and Legitimacy under the Chad Pipeline Project
4. “We Own This Oil”: Artisanal Refineries, Extractive Industries and the Politics of Oil in Nigeria
5. Converting Threats to Power: Methane Extraction in Lake Kivu, Rwanda
6. Politics in the Public Sphere: ENGOs and Oil Companies in the International Climate Negotiations, 1987-2001
7. Preventing the Resource Curse: Ethnographic Notes on an Economic Experiment
8. Illness, Compensation, and Claims for Justice: Lessons from the Choropampa Mercury Spill
9. Wars of Words: Experts, Oil, and Environmental Governance in Chad
10. Post-Script: Mapping Neo-Extractive Frontiers across Africa and Latin America
About the author
Lori Leonard is a Professor in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University, USA.
Siba N. Grovogui is a Professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University, USA.
Summary
This book explores emergent forms of governance in mining and extractive industry projects around the world.
