Social Movements Contesting Natural Resource Development

ISBN-13: 9781138064737 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 190 str.

John F. Devlin

Opis

Presenting a broad range of case studies, this book explores rural social movements contesting natural resource development initiatives.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Social movements and natural resources  2. Peasant collective action against disembedding land: The case of Niassa Province, Mozambique  3. Negotiating pipeline projects and reterritorializing land through rural resistance in northern Kenya  4. Confronting neoliberal resource policy: Mining conflict and coal politics in Bangladesh  5. Local struggles for the coproduction of natural capital: Payment for forest environmental services in central Vietnam  6. Beyond the swans: cellulose extraction, social mobilization, and environmental transformations in southern Chile  7. "No Oil in Our Soil!": Shifting Narratives from Commodities to the Commons in Iowa, USA  8. Discursive framing and community mobilization: Stopping the Melancthon Mega Quarry in Ontario, Canada  9. Rural protests and the mining industry in Finland  10. Agritourism in Poland: A new social movement

O autorze

John F. Devlin is Associate Professor, School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada