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Social Movements Contesting Natural Resource Development

Social Movements Contesting Natural Resource Development

Devlin, John F.

Hardcover

Series: Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management

Environmental StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138064734
ISBN13: 9781138064737
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 28 2019
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

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 consideration. In this volume the authors discuss the emergence, process and outcomes of social movements with respect to these natural resource development projects, including examples of confrontation seeking to either block developments or promote alternative development approaches, such as agritourism. The examples taken from Africa, Asia, North America, Europe and Latin America demonstrate the diversity of struggles stimulated by natural resource development, including both immediate and longer-term effects, repertoires of action, political and cultural work. Taken together the case studies provide a rich overview of current movements engaged in resisting the neoliberal agenda of global resource exploitation.

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