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Contemporary development debates in Latin America are marked by the pursuit of economic growth, technological improvement and poverty reduction, and are overshadowed by growing concerns about the preservation of the environment and human rights. This collection’s multidisciplinary perspective links local, national, regional and transnational levels of inquiry into the interaction of state and non-state actors involved in promoting or opposing natural resource development. Taking this approach allows the book to contemplate the complex panorama of competing visions, concepts and interests grounded in the mutual influences and interdependencies which shape the contemporary arena of social-environmental conflicts in the region.
Natural Resource Development and Human Rights in Latin America is a timely and noteworthy addition to the literature on the increasing awareness of the conflicts and violence stemming from the current wave and economic model of extractivism.
The book interweaves case studies throughout its theoretical analysis. It will be a helpful and valuable addition to my ‘development’ shelf. Martin Mowforth - University of Plymouth
This volume is edited by Radosław Powęska and Malayna Raftopoulos. Powęska holds a PhD in Latin American
studies from the University
of Liverpool and is an assistant professor at the University of Warsaw where he works in the fields of political sociology and political
anthropology of Latin America. He is interested in state-society relations,
power relations in multi- ethnic societies, political cultures. Raftopoulos holds a PhD in Latin
American studies from the University of Liverpool. She is currently an
assistant professor in Latin American studies at Aalborg University. She is also an associate research fellow at the Institute of Latin
American Studies, University of London, the Human
Rights Consortium, University of London, and the Centro Latino Americano de
Ecología Social, Uruguay.
1. Forces of resistance and human rights: deconstructing natural resource development in Latin America Malayna Raftopoulos and Radosław Powęska 2. Indigenous rights in the era of ‘indigenous state’: how interethnic conflicts and state appropriation of indigenous agenda hinder the challenge to extractivism in Bolivia Radosław Powęska 3. REDD+ and human rights in Latin America: addressing indigenous peoples’ concerns though the use of Human Rights Impact Assessments Malayna Raftopoulos 4. Violence in the actions of indigenous peoples from the Amazon region as a result of environmental conflicts Magdalena Krysińska-Kałużna 5. Neogeography, development and human rights in Latin America Doug Specht 6. From human rights to an urbanising environmental politics: understanding flood and landslide vulnerability in Brazil’s coastal mountains Robert Coates 7. Human rights and socio-environmental conflict in Nicaragua’s Grand Canal project Joanna Morley 8. Sustainable development, the politics of place and decoloniality: contradictory or complementary approaches to Latin American futures? Bogumila Lisocka-Jaegermann