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Natural Resources, Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Latin America: Exploring the Boundaries of Environmental and State-Corporate Crime in Bolivia, Peru, and Mexico
Building on two years of research and drawing on the state-corporate and environmental crime literatures, this book explores extractive conflicts between indigenous populations, the government, and oil and mining companies in Latin America.
Author(s) | By Marcela Torres Wong. |
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Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Format | Paperback / softback |
Pages | 164 |
Published in | United Kingdom |
Published | 12 Feb 2021 |
Availability | POD |
Building on two years of research and drawing on the state-corporate and environmental crime literatures, this book explores extractive conflicts between indigenous populations, the government, and oil and mining companies in Latin America.
Introduction, 1.What do indigenous people want? 2. Ecological defense or bargaining over indigenous lands? 3. Rights do not matter, political power does, 4. There is nothing to consult here! 5. Prior consultation and the expansion of extractivism 6. Concl
Marcela Torres Wong is a Peruvian lawyer and anthropologist at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. She has a PhD in Political Science from The American University in Washington, DC. Since 2017, she has worked as a full-time professor and researc