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Author:   Bettina Engels ,  Kristina Dietz
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2017
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   4.804kg
ISBN:  

9781137588104

ISBN 10:   1137588101
Pages:   273
Publication Date:   28 February 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1 Contested Extractivism, Society and the State - an Introduction Kristina Dietz and Bettina Engels 2 Reimagining Extractivism: Insights from Spatial Theory Facundo Martin 3 Beyond Curse and Blessing: Rentier Society in Venezuela Stefan Peters 4 Ghana - big man big envelope, finish: Chinese Corporate Exploitation in Small-Scale Mining Coleman Agyeyomah, Gordon Crawford and Atinga Mba 5 Small-Scale Gold Mining and the State in the Philippines Boris Verbrugge 6 Politics of Scale and Struggles over Mining in Colombia Kristina Dietz 7 Not all Glitter is Gold: Mining Conflicts in Burkina Faso Bettina Engels 8 Peasant Movements in Argentina and Brazil Renata Motta 9 Oil Palm Expansion and Peasant Environmental Justice Struggles in Colombia Victoria Marin-Burgos <10 Contested Market-Driven Land Reform in Malawi David Chinigo 11 Contesting Extractivism: Conceptual, Theoretical and Normative Reflections Jonas Wolff

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Bettina Engels is Junior Professor for Conflict and African Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Together with Kristina Dietz, she is head of the junior research group ‘Global Change – Local Conflicts?’. Her research focuses on conflict over land and resources, spatial and action theory, and resistance, urban protest, and social movements in Africa. Kristina Dietz is head of the junior research group ‘Global Change – Local Conflicts? conflicts over land in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa in the context of interdependent transformation processes’ at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Her research and teaching focus on political ecology, conflicts over land and resources in Latin America, climate and energy policy, spatial and democracy theory.

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