Abstract
Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America, edited by Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey Bury. University of Texas Press, 2013. Unearthing conflict: Corporate Mining, Activism, and Expertise in Peru, by Fabiana Li. Duke University Press, 2015. Oil Sparks in the Amazon: Local Conflicts, Indigenous Populations, and Natural Resources, by Patricia I. Vasquez. University of Georgia Press, 2014.
Highlights
– Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America, edited by Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey Bury
Since the early 2000s, scholarly attention for social dynamics around extractive industries in Latin American societies has boomed like the sector itself
The shift towards what Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey Bury have labelled New Extraction had already started in the 1990s
Summary
– Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America, edited by Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey Bury. To the sector’s expansion and renewed political debates on its link to development, this increased academic interest is explained by the alarming rise of local conflicts over the extraction of metal minerals, oil and gas Within this growing body of publications, the three books under review here are helpful for understanding the nature and importance of these contemporary socioenvironmental struggles. Vásquez from Argentina is an expert on energy and sustainability She analyses oil-related conflicts with indigenous peoples in the Amazon of Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. Anthony Bebbington and Jeffry Bury have teamed up with a group of geographers like themselves from outside South America – people with a background in anthropology, journalism and activism who have made case studies on mining, oil and gas conflicts in Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador. Despite the focus of these books on the Andean countries, their contributions are of region-wide relevance
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