Overview

This book addresses the intersection of extractivism, populism, and accountability. Although populist politics are often portrayed as a driver of poor environmental governance, Populist Moments and Extractivist States identifies it as an intervening variable at best – one that emerges in response to the accountability deficits of extractive states. Case studies in Venezuela – for many, the prototypical petrostate – and Ecuador – which exchanged agribusiness dependency for oil decades later – illustrate how extractive states are oriented by a colonial logic of export and service. This logic regulates state-society-nature relationships and circumscribes avenues for local stakeholders to hold public officials and extractive industries to account for environmental and human harms. Populist moments of the early 21st century across Latin America responded to these conditions, promising more equitable and sustainable futures. However, rather than reversing the technocracy, verticalism, and exclusion of the recent past, populist moments often intensified and legitimated them in the drive to maximize and distribute resource rents. The result has been cyclical, as populist moments of hope and rupture fall prey to the extractivist states they tried, and failed, to replace. 

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Author:   Teresa Kramarz ,  Donald Kingsbury
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783030709624

ISBN 10:   3030709620
Pages:   118
Publication Date:   08 June 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTIONOUTLINE OF THE BOOK CHAPTER 2: THE LIMITS OF POPULISM AS CAUSAL EXPLANATION‘TIL POPULISM DO US PART: POPULISMS’ THREAT TO LIBERAL DEMOCRACYNEOPOPULIST INTERLUDESCRITICAL AND RADICAL DEMOCRACY APPROACHESPOPULISM AND NATURECONCLUSION: POPULISM AND THE EXTRACTIVIST STATE IN LATIN AMERICA CHAPTER 3: THE SELF-REINFORCING EFFECTS OF THE EXTRACTIVE STATETHE CURSE OF THE EXTRACTIVE STATEDEMOCRATIC ACCOUNTABILITY GAPSFEEDBACK EFFECTSCONCLUSION CHAPTER 4: “THE DEVIL’S EXCREMENT”: VENEZUELA AS THE PROTOTYPICAL EXTRACTIVE STATESOWING THE OILSTATE-SOCIETY-NATURE DYNAMICS AND TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTATORSHIPSEXTRACTIVISM AFTER DICTATORSHIPCOLLAPSE AS TRANSITION: TOWARD POST-NEOLIBERAL ‘PROGRESSIVE’ EXTRACTIVISMPROGRESSIVE EXTRACTIVISM AND THE BOLIVARIAN PETROSTATECONCLUSION CHAPTER 5: THE CITIZEN’S REVOLUTION AND THE FAILURE OF AN ALTERNATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL MOMENT IN ECUADORTHE PROMISE OF AN ALTERNATIVE MODELTHE YASUNÍ-ITT INITIATIVEENDOGENOUS AND EXOGENOUS INFLUENCES TO LEAVE OIL UNDERGROUNDPOPULISM AND THE FEEDBACK EFFECTS OF THE EXTRACTIVE STATECONCLUSION CHAPTER 6: EXTRACTIVE STATES AND PROSPECTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIONTHEORETICAL IMPLICATIONSPOLICY IMPLICATIONS

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Teresa Kramarz is Associate Professor in Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, Canada. Donald V Kingsbury is Assistant Professor in Latin American Studies and Political Science at the University of Toronto, Canada. 

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