Natural Resources, Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Latin America Natural Resources, Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Latin America

Natural Resources, Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Latin America

Exploring the Boundaries of Environmental and State-Corporate Crime in Bolivia, Peru, and Mexico

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Beschreibung des Verlags

In 1989, the International Labor Organization stated that all indigenous peoples living in the postcolonial world were entitled to the right to prior consultation, over activities that could potentially impact their territories and traditional livelihoods. However, in many cases the economic importance of industries such as mining and oil condition the way that governments implement the right to prior consultation.

This book explores extractive conflicts between indigenous populations, the government and oil and mining companies in Latin America, namely Mexico, Peru and Bolivia. Building on two years of research and drawing on the state-corporate and environmental crime literatures, this book examines the legal, extralegal, illegal as well as political strategies used by the state and extractive companies to avoid undesired results produced by the legalization of the right to prior consultation. It examines the ways in which prior consultation is utilized by powerful indigenous actors to negotiate economic resources with the state and extractive companies, while also showing the ways in which weaker indigenous groups are incapable of engaging in prior consultations in a meaningful way and are therefore left at the mercy of negative ecological impacts. It demonstrates how social mobilization—not prior consultation—is the most effective strategy in preventing extraction from moving forward within ecologically fragile indigenous territories.

GENRE
Business und Finanzen
ERSCHIENEN
2018
3. September
SPRACHE
EN
Englisch
UMFANG
176
Seiten
VERLAG
Taylor & Francis
GRÖSSE
2,1
 MB

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