Case studies written by anthropologists, geographers, political scientists, and sociologists provide empirical detail and analytical insight into states' and co

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"Based on case-studies in eight Latin American countries, this book investigates the extent to which there have been elite shifts, how new governments have rela

This book is open access under a CC-BY license. The multiple purposes of nature – livelihood for communities, revenues for states, commodities for companies,

Over the past two decades, the extraction of nonrenewable resources in Latin America has given rise to many forms of struggle, particularly among disadvantaged