Natural Resources, Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Latin America: Exploring the Boundaries of Environmental and State-Corporate Crime in Bolivia,

ISBN-13: 9780815381525 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 164 str.

Marcela Torres Wong

Opis

Building on two years of research and drawing on the state-corporate and environmental crime literatures, this book explores extractive conflicts between indigenous populations, the government, and oil and mining companies in Latin America.

Spis treści

Introduction

1.What do indigenous people want? 

2. Ecological defense or bargaining over indigenous lands? 

3. Rights do not matter, political power does

4. There is nothing to consult here! 

5. Prior consultation and the expansion of extractivism 

6. Conclusions

Index

O autorze

Marcela Torres Wong is a Peruvian lawyer and anthropologist at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. She has a PhD in Political Science from The American University in Washington, DC. Since 2017, she has worked as a full-time professor and researcher in the Latin American Faculty of Social Science (FLACSO) in Mexico City. Her research interests include indigenous movements, extractive industries and socio-environmental conflicts in Latin America. She has received grants from the Inter-American Foundation (IAF), the Tinker Foundation, and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).