This book is a study of oil production that focuses on the places from which oil is extracted, and on the problems, both environmental and human, created in those places. It consists of eight case-studies, all of them attempting to answer these questions: What can indigenous people do when faced with the destruction of their natural and social habitats? And how do oil companies respond to the various forms of local and indigenous resistance to their activities? The case studies deal with oil-producing regions in Alaska, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea and West...

The Contested Floodplain tells the story of institutional changes in the management of common pool resources (pasture, wildlife, and fisheries) among Ila and Balundwe agro-pastoralists and Batwa fishermen in the Kafue Flats, in southern Zambia. It explains how and why a once rich floodplain area, managed under local common property regimes, becomes a poor man's place and a degraded resource area. Based on social anthropological field research, the book explains how well working institutions in the past, regulating communal access to resources, have turned into state property and open access...

The rapid expansion of the mineral and metal mining sector in the past decade was accompanied by an increase in social conflicts. What is the impact of large-scale mining operations? What are the strategies used by transnational corporations to gain access to underground resources and legitimize their activities? And how do local and indigenous communities confronted with mining react to, negotiate with, and resist these activities? This book covers 13 case studies of copper, gold, uranium and other mining operations, situated in Latin America, Africa, Asia, Australia and Switzerland. With an...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Politik - Internationale Politik - Thema: Globalisierung, pol. Okonomie, Note: 3,0, Freie Universitat Berlin (Otto-Suhr-Institut), Veranstaltung: Theorien der Internationalen Politischen Okonomie (Hauptseminar), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Regulation findet in unserem Sprachgebrauch mehrere Bedeutungen: Einstellen, Normierung, Nachstellen und viele mehr. Die Verwendungen fur den Begriff sind vieldeutig und bezeichnen Regulation als Schnitt- und Schaltzentrale bestehender Verhaltnisse, die aufgrund von unterschiedlichen Krafteverhaltnissen einer...