ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|24 pages
Introduction
part II|56 pages
Conceptual approaches to excavating the new extraction
chapter 4|18 pages
Post-neoliberalism in Latin America
part III|58 pages
The role of Canadian capital in Latin American extraction
chapter 5|17 pages
Scarcity and control
part IV|88 pages
Innovations on the ground: privatisation, people and governance
chapter 8|19 pages
Mining movements and political horizons in the Andes
chapter 9|22 pages
Extractive industries and the global human rights regime for businesses
part V|44 pages
Jurisprudence and the new extraction
chapter 12|21 pages
The rise of the corporate investment rights regime and ‘extractive exceptionalism’
chapter 13|21 pages
Impeding access to justice
part VI|13 pages
Conclusion and ways forward