This book offers an overview of the key debates in the burgeoning anthropological literature on resource extraction. Resources play a crucial role in the contem

This book offers an overview of the key debates in the burgeoning anthropological literature on resource extraction. Resources play a crucial role in the contem

International institutions (United Nations, World Bank) and multinational companies have voiced concern over the adverse impact of resource extraction activitie

Standing on the broken ground of resource extraction settings, the state is sometimes like a chimera: its appearance and intentions are misleading and, for some

Natural resource extraction has fueled protest movements in Latin America and existing research has drawn considerable scholarly attention to the politics of an