Social Movements Contesting Natural Resource Development
Presenting a broad range of case studies, this book explores rural social movements contesting natural resource development initiatives.
Natural resource development takes multiple forms, including infrastructure corridors, mines, dams, resource processing plants and pipelines. Many of which are driven by economic valuations, whilst social and environmental effects are given limited consideration. In this volume the authors discuss the emergence, process and outcomes of social movements with respect to these natural resource development projects, including examples of confrontation seeking to either block developments or promote alternative development approaches, such as agritourism. The examples taken from Africa, Asia, North America, Europe and Latin America demonstrate the diversity of struggles stimulated by natural resource development, including both immediate and longer-term effects, repertoires of action, political and cultural work. Taken together the case studies provide a rich overview of current movements engaged in resisting the neoliberal agenda of global resource exploitation.
This book will be key reading for scholars interested in social movements, natural resource development, environmental policy and development studies. It will also be of interest to activists engaged in mobilizations stimulated by natural resource development projects.
John F. Devlin is Associate Professor, School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
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Social Movements Contesting Natural Resource Development
Edited by John F. Devlin
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Subjects: LCSH: Environmental protectionCitizen participationCase studies. | Mineral industriesSocial aspects-Case studies. | Conservation of natural resourcesSocial aspectsCase studies. | Natural resources managementSocial aspectsCase studies. | Community-based conservationCase studies.
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I dedicate this book to Dr. Nonita Tumulak Yap, my wife and colleague. During 40 years of academic and social movement work she introduced me to international development and environmental issues from Australia to Zimbabwe and many countries in between. Nonita suffered a stroke and passed away while the book was being edited. She was my earth and my sky we struggle on a luta continua.
Contents
Brock Bersaglio is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield and an Affiliated Researcher with the East African Institute at Aga Khan University. Focusing on East and Southern Africa, his work investigates the implications of biodiversity conservation for land rights, livelihoods, and justice. His work also engages with natural resource governance and the politics of rural development more broadly.
Ismo Bjrn is a Senior Researcher at Karelian institute, University of Eastern Finland and Adjunct Professor in Finnish and Environmental History at UEF and University of Turku. He has studied environmental history, especially forest and mining history, sport history (today ski jumping and Finnish baseball) and the politics of memory on the Finnish-Russian border. He was born in Outokumpu beside the Outokumpu mine and its waste area. He has written several books about local Finnish history.
Angie Carter is an Assistant Professor of environmental and energy justice at Michigan Technological University. She studies agrifood systems sustainability, environmental problems, and social change through community-based research.
John F. Devlin is an Associate Professor in the School for Environmental Design and Rural Development, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. His primary areas of academic interest include the role of the state in development; environmental assessment and public participation; agricultural and environmental policy; and social movements.
