Breaking Ground: From Extraction Booms to Mining Bans in Latin America

ISBN-13: 9780197643150 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 328 str.

Professor of Politi Rose J. (Professor of Political Science

Recenzje

Breaking Ground should be widely read. It offers a giant leap forward both in general explanations for when and how social movements impact policy and institutional change, and in the highly conflictive area of mining-based extractive development in particular; an issue even more topical given the need for minerals in new climate change-related technologies. Spalding constructs an elegant, interdisciplinary three factor explanation for variation across cases that draws from political economy, social movement theory, and comparative politics. The comprehensiveness, depth, and clarity of the analytical dimensions of the subject are impressive and refreshing. This book will endure as a towering testament to the explanatory power of intensive, in-depth, committed, long-term field research. An extraordinary achievement.

O autorze

Rose J. Spalding is Professor of Political Science at DePaul University, where she specializes in the study of Latin American social movements and political economy. She is the author of Contesting Trade in Central America: Market Reform and Resistance; Capitalists and Revolution in Nicaragua: Opposition and Accommodation, 1979-1993; and The Political Economy of Revolutionary Nicaragua. Spalding's research has been supported by grants from the Social Science Research Council, American Council of Learned Societies, Fulbright, and the Kellogg Institute at Notre Dame University, among others. She is a founding contributor to the Research Group MEGA (Mobilization, Extractivism, and Government Action) at Tulane University.