1st Edition

Social Movements Contesting Natural Resource Development

Edited By John F. Devlin Copyright 2020
208 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Presenting a broad range of case studies, this book explores rural social movements contesting natural resource development initiatives. Natural resource development takes multiple forms, including infrastructure corridors, mines, dams, resource processing plants and pipelines. Many of which are driven by economic valuations, whilst social and environmental effects are given limited... Read more

1. Introduction: Social movements and natural resources

John F. Devlin

2. Peasant collective action against disembedding land: The case of Niassa Province, Mozambique

Kajsa Johansson

3. Negotiating pipeline projects and reterritorializing land through rural resistance in northern Kenya

Charis Enns and Brock Bersaglio

4. Confronting neoliberal resource policy: Mining conflict and coal politics in Bangladesh

M. Omar Faruque

5. Local struggles for the coproduction of natural capital: Payment for forest environmental services in central Vietnam

Fumikazu Ubukata and Truong Quang Hoang

6. Beyond the swans: cellulose extraction, social mobilization, and environmental transformations in southern Chile

Ricardo Fuentealba and Mariela Ramírez

7. "No Oil in Our Soil!": Shifting Narratives from Commodities to the Commons in Iowa, USA

Angie Carter and Ahna Kruzic

8. Discursive framing and community mobilization: Stopping the Melancthon Mega Quarry in Ontario, Canada

Rebecca McEvoy and John F. Devlin

9. Rural protests and the mining industry in Finland

Tuija Mononen and Ismo Björn

10. Agritourism in Poland: A new social movement

Grzegorz Forys

Biography

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