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Mining in Latin America Critical Approaches to the New Extraction
The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion and intensification of mineral resource exploitation and development across the global south, especially in Latin America. This shift has brought mining more visibly into global public debates and spurred a great deal of controversy and conflict. This volume assembles new scholarship that provides critical perspectives on these issues.
The book marshals original, empirical work from leading social scientists in a variety of disciplines to address a range of questions about the practices of mining companies on the ground, the impacts of mining on host communities, and the responses to mining from communities, civil society and states. The book further explores the global and international causes, consequences and innovations of this new era of mining activity in Latin America. Key issues include the role of Canadian mining companies and their investment in the region, and, to a lesser extent, the role of Chinese mining capital. Several chapters take a regional perspective, while others are based on empirical data from specific countries including Bolivia, Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala and Peru.
Part 1: Introduction
1. From Global Peripheries to the Earth’s Core: The New Extraction in Latin America
Michael L. Dougherty
Part 2: Conceptual Approaches to Excavating the New Extraction
2. Investment, Governance and Resistance in the New Extractive Economies of Latin America
Henry Veltmeyer
3. The New Extractivism, Raw Materialism and 21st Century Mining in Latin America
Paul S. Ciccantell and Daniel Patten
4. Post-neoliberalism in Latin America: Continuities and Discontinuities in Regimes of Extraction
Liisa North, Ricardo Grinspun and Carlos Larrea
Part 3: The Role of Canadian Capital in Latin American Extraction
5. Scarcity and Control: The New Extraction and Canada’s Mineral Resource Protection Network
Michael L. Dougherty
6. Rethinking ‘Canadian Mining Imperialism’ in Latin America
J.Z. Garrod and Laura Macdonald
7. Canadian Capital, Mining Taxation and the Return of Some (Strong) States
Pablo Heidrich and Paola Ortiz Loaiza
Part 4: Innovations on the Ground: Privatization, People and Governance
8. Mining Movements and Political Horizons in the Andes: Articulation, Democratization and Worlds Otherwise
Bret Gustafson and Natalia Guzmán Solano
9. Extractive Industries and the Global Human Rights Regime for Businesses: The Marlin Human Rights Impact Assessment
Kalowatie Deonandan and Jennifer Morgan
10. Moving Overseas? Critical Reflections on the Implementation of Latin American Ethical Gold Schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa
Gavin Hilson and James McQuilken
11. Mining, Property and the Reordering of Socionatural Relations in Peru
Matthew Himley
Part 5: Jurisprudence and the New Extraction
12. The Rise of the Corporate Investment Rights Regime and ‘Extractive Exceptionalism’: Evidence from El Salvador
Sarah Anderson, Manuel Pérez Rocha and Michael L. Dougherty
13. Impeding Access to Justice: Establishing Civil Jurisdiction in Canadian Courts in the Global Extractive Economy
Bernadette Maheandiran
Part 6: Conclusion and Ways Forward
14. The Unexplored Dimensions of Resistance to Extractivism in Latin America: The Role of Women and NGOs
Kalowatie Deonandan and Rebecca Tatham
Biography
Kalowatie Deonandan is Associate Professor of Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
Michael L. Dougherty is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University, USA.
