ABSTRACT
This timely volume examines resistance to natural resource extraction from a critical ethnographic perspective. Using a range of case studies from North, Central and South America, Australia, and Central Asia, the contributors explore how and why resistance movements seek to change extraction policies, evaluating their similarities, differences, successes and failures. A range of ongoing debates concerning environmental justice, risk and disaster, sacrifice zones, and the economic cycles of boom and bust are considered, and the roles of governments, free markets and civil society groups re-examined.
Incorporating contributions from authors in the fields of anthropology, public policy, environmental health, and community-based advocacy, ExtrACTION offers a robustly argued case for change. It will make engaging reading for academics and students in the fields of critical anthropology, public policy, and politics, as well as activists and other interested citizens.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|46 pages
Histories & Trajectories
chapter 2|15 pages
Mega-mining Sovereignty
chapter 3|15 pages
Marcellus Shale as Golden Goose
part II|60 pages
Risks & Rights
chapter 4|14 pages
Bounded Impacts, Boundless Promise
chapter 6|15 pages
Contingent Legal Futures
part III|45 pages
Struggles & Opportunities
chapter 8|14 pages
With or Without Railway?
chapter 9|14 pages
Bringing Country Back?
part IV|60 pages
Alternative Futures