Social Movements Contesting Natural Resource Development

Herausgeber: Devlin, John F

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presenting a broad range of case studies, this book explores rural social movements contesting natural resource development initiatives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781138064737
• ISBN-10: 1138064734
• Artikelnr.: 58054259

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Social movements and natural resources 2. Peasant
collective action against disembedding land: The case of Niassa Province,
Mozambique 3. Negotiating pipeline projects and reterritorializing land
through rural resistance in northern Kenya 4. Confronting neoliberal
resource policy: Mining conflict and coal politics in Bangladesh 5. Local
struggles for the coproduction of natural capital: Payment for forest
environmental services in central Vietnam 6. Beyond the swans: cellulose
extraction, social mobilization, and environmental transformations in
southern Chile 7. "No Oil in Our Soil!": Shifting Narratives from
Commodities to the Commons in Iowa, USA 8. Discursive framing and community
mobilization: Stopping the Melancthon Mega Quarry in Ontario, Canada 9.
Rural protests and the mining industry in Finland 10. Agritourism in
Poland: A new social movement