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Title ExtrACTION : impacts, engagements, and alternative futures / edited by Kirk Jalbert [and others] ; foreword by June C. Nash ; afterword by Jeanne Simonelli
Published Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 237 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Online access with DDA: Askews (Economics)
Contents pt. 1. Histories & trajectories -- pt. 2. Risks & rights -- pt. 3. Struggles & opportunities -- pt. 4. Alternative futures
Summary This timely volume examines resistance to natural resource extraction from a critical ethnographic perspective. Using a range of case studies from North, Central and South America, Australia, and Central Asia, the contributors explore how and why resistance movements seek to change extraction policies, evaluating their similarities, differences, successes and failures. A range of ongoing debates concerning environmental justice, risk and disaster, sacrifice zones, and the economic cycles of boom and bust are considered, and the roles of governments, free markets and civil society groups re-examined. Incorporating contributions from authors in the fields of anthropology, public policy, environmental health, and community-based advocacy, ExtrACTION offers a robustly argued case for change. It will make engaging reading for academics and students in the fields of critical anthropology, public policy, and politics, as well as activists and other interested citizens
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects.
Environmental justice.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Environmental justice
Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Jalbert, Kirk, editor
Willow, Anna, editor
Casagrande, David, editor
Paladino, Stephanie, editor
ISBN 9781315225579
9781351847308
9781351847292
1315225573
1351847295
1351847309
9781351847285
1351847287