Concessionaires, Financiers and Communities

Implementing Indigenous Peoples' Rights to Land in Transnational Development Projects
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-108-72345-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 233 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Unrelenting demands for energy, infrastructure and natural resources, and the need for developing states to augment income and signal an 'enterprise-ready' attitude mean that transnational development projects remain a common tool for economic development. Yet little is known about the fragmented legal framework of private financial mechanisms, contractual clauses and discretionary behaviours that shape modern development projects. How do gaps and biases in formal laws cope with the might of concessionaires and financiers and their algorithmic contractual and policy technicalities negotiated in private offices? What impacts do private legal devices have for the visibility and implementation of Indigenous peoples' rights to land? This original perspective on transnational development projects explains how the patterns of poor rights recognition and implementation, power(lessness), vulnerability and, ultimately, conflict routinely seen in development projects will only be fully appreciated by acknowledging and remedying the pivotal role and priority enjoyed by private mechanisms, documentation and expertise.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bhatt, Kinnari I

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Development projects, Indigenous peoples' land rights and rights implementation; 2. Characteristics of indigenous peoples and development projects; 3. In the shadows of the operational development project: coping strategies, lacunas and fragmentation in the formal legal framework; 4. Bridging the gap through the elephant in the room? Private mechanisms and behaviours for implementing Indigenous peoples' rights; 5. Discretion, delegation, fragmentation and opacity: impacts of financing mechanisms in Mongolia and Panama; 6. Pricing for poverty: project finance, power purchase agreements and structural inequities in Uganda; 7. Negotiating land outcomes: a comparative look at concessionaires, Indigenous peoples and power; 8. Moving forward.

Über Autor(innen)

Bhatt, Kinnari I
Kinnari I. Bhatt is a post-doctoral researcher at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. She worked as a project finance lawyer with leading global law firms White and Case and Milbank, Tweed Hadley and McCloy in London and Asia and acted as a legal adviser to the Ministry of Mineral Resources in Sierra Leone. She advises NGOs on issues of equitable natural resource management and has taught courses on legal aspects of international finance and project finance at the University of East Anglia and University College London.