New Mechanisms of Participation in Extractive Governance: Between Technologies of Governance and Resistance Work

ISBN-13: 9780815360476 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 178 str.

Esben Leifsen; Maria-Therese Gustafsson; Maria Antonieta Guzman-Gallegos

Opis

Through nine empirically grounded case studies from Latin America, Europe and Australia, this book critically assesses different forms of participation related to resource extraction activities. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Third World Quarterly.

Spis treści

Introduction: New mechanisms of participation in extractive governance between technologies of governance and resistance work Esben Leifsen, Maria-Therese Gustafsson, Maria A. Guzmán-Gallegos and Almut Schilling-Vacaflor  1. Who controls the territory and the resources? Free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) as a contested human rights practice in Bolivia Almut Schilling-Vacaflor  2. Weaving hope in ancestral black territories in Colombia: the reach and limitations of free, prior, and informed consultation and consent Marilyn Machado, David López Matta, María Mercedes Campo, Arturo Escobar and Viviane Weitzner  3. Claiming prior consultation, monitoring environmental impact: counterwork by the use of formal instruments of participatory governance in Ecuador’s emerging mining sector Esben Leifsen, Luis Sánchez-Vázquez and Maleny Gabriela Reyes  4. Between oil contamination and consultation: constrained spaces of influence in Northern Peruvian Amazonia María A. Guzmán-Gallegos  5. A vote to derail extraction: popular consultation and resource sovereignty in Tolima, Colombia John-Andrew McNeish  6. The struggles surrounding ecological and economic zoning in Peru Maria-Therese Gustafsson  7. The politics of planning: assessing the impacts of mining on Sami lands Rebecca Lawrence and Rasmus Kløcker Larsen 8. Shaping projects, shaping impacts: community-controlled impact assessments and negotiated agreements Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh 9. ‘Nosotros Somos Estado’: contested legalities in decision-making about extractives affecting ancestral territories in Colombia Viviane Weitzner

O autorze

Esben Leifsen is an Associate Professor at the Department of International Environment and Development Studies, the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway. He teaches anthropology and politics of international development, and carries out research within the fields of the anthropology and political ecology of resource extraction, socio-environmental conflict, environmental justice and indigenous rights.

Maria-Therese Gustafsson is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, Sweden. Prominent themes in her research are private politics, political participation, natural resource governance and climate security. Her dissertation was awarded with the prize for the best dissertation at the Faculty of Social Science, Stockholm University, in 2015.

María A. Guzmán-Gallegos is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway. Her research foci include personhood and gender, Amerindian conceptualizations of nature and society, and socio-environmental conflict related to extraction. Current research interests are environmental governance, contamination and Amerindian conceptualizations of human and non-human bodies.

Almut Schilling-Vacaflor is a sociologist and anthropologist who is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. Her research deals with environmental governance, socio-environmental conflicts, participation, contention and rights. Schilling-Vacaflor headed a research project on "Consultation, Participation and Conflict Transformation", funded by the German Foundation for Peace Research.