Post-Frontier Resource Governance

Indigenous Rights, Extraction and Conservation in the Peruvian Amazon
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-38184-2
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 185 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3551 g

Reihe: International Relations and Development Series

The author presents an anthropological analysis of the regulatory technologies that characterize contemporary resource frontiers. He offers an ethnographic portrayal of indigenous rights, resource extraction and environmental politics in the Peruvian Amazon.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Larsen, P.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Energie- & Versorgungswirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword; Jonathan Friedman 1. The Post-Frontier Paradox 2. The Peruvian Amazon And Post-Frontier Ethnography 3. Frontier Narratives 4. Decolonizing Indigenous Governance 5. Greening The Frontier 6. The Double-Bind Of Community Conservation 8. Oil Exploration And The Extractive Post-Frontier 9. Indigenous Power And Post-Frontier Politics Concluding Remarks: Theorizing Post-Frontier Governance Post-Script: Biosphere Dreams And Biosfears

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Bille Larsen is Lecturer of Anthropology, Development and International Governance at the universities of Lucerne and Lausanne, Switzerland. Primary fieldwork sites include the Peruvian Amazon, Viet Nam and global level processes. He has worked extensively with international organizations, NGOs and community-based organizations seeking to deepen anthropological analysis of institutions and practices.