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Underground Politics
How Colombian mining communities navigate state power in a context of criminalization and political neglect In the Chocó rainforests of Colombia, local and settler miners turn to gold as a means to get by and get ahead on the margins of capitalism. They eke out livelihoods while worrying about the declining richness of subsoils, their heightened persecution by state troops, the stigmatizing language of politicians, and the extortion of paramilitaries and guerrillas. Underground Politics follows the everyday sociopolitical life of this supposedly lawless gold frontier, revealing how gold-mining communities in Chocó navigate state power in a context of criminalization and political neglect. ...
Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 77
Beginning with Number 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the most comprehensive annual bibliography in Latin American Studies. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 140 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research underway in specialized areas. Subject categories for the Social Sciences editions include anthropology; geography; government and politics; international relations; political economy; and sociology.
Human Rights Trade-Offs in Times of Economic Growth
This book uncovers a historical dependency on smelting activities that has trapped inhabitants of La Oroya, Peru, in a context of systemic lack of freedom. La Oroya has been named one of the most polluted places on the planet by the US Blacksmith Institute. Residents face the dilemma of whether to defend their health or to preserve job stability at the local smelter, the main source of toxic pollution in town. Valencia unpacks this paradoxical human rights trade-off. This context, shaped by social, historical, political, and economic factors, increases people’s vulnerabilities and decreases their ability to choose, resulting in residents' trading off their right to health in order to work. This book shows the deep connection of this local dilemma to the country’s national paradox, arising out of Peru's vision of natural resource extraction as the main path to secure economic growth for the entire country at the expense of some groups.
A contracorriente
A contracorriente: agua y conflicto en América Latina, es el resultado de un diálogo abierto entre académicos y activistas interesados en pensar y resistir la violencia e injusticia inherente en los conflictos de agua en América Latina. A través del análisis de los distintos y complejos ensamblajes hídricos socionaturales, este libro ofrece un a variedad de casos empíricos y conceptuales en los que la oposición a saber, la contracorriente, asume distintas formas y cuestiona de diversas maneras, las variadas definiciones y prácticas del agua hegemónicas y estáticas. De este modo, este es un testimonio de cómo ningún conflicto del agua en Latinoamérica es “corriente” o norma...
Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa
There is no question that Africa is endowed with abundant natural resources of different magnitudes. However, more than a decade of high commodity prices and new hydrocarbon discoveries across the continent has led countless international organizations, donor agencies, and non-governmental organizations to devote considerable attention to the potential of natural resource–based development. Natural Resource–Based Development in Africa places a particular emphasis on the actors that help us understand the extent to which resources could be transformed into broader developmental outcomes. Based on a wide variety of primary sources and fieldwork, including in-person interviews and participa...
Resource Booms and Institutional Pathways
This book analyses the institutional development that the Peruvian state has undergone in recent years within a context of rapid extractive industry expansion. It addresses the most important institutional state transformations produced directly by natural resources growth. This includes the construction of a redistributive law with the mining canon; the creation of a research canon for public universities; the development of new institutions for environmental regulation; the legitimation of state involvement in the function of prevention and management of conflicts; and the institutionalization and dissemination of practices of participation and local consultation.
The Routledge Handbook of Civil-Military Relations
This second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Civil-Military Relations offers a wide-ranging, internationally focused overview of the field of civil-military relations. The armed forces are central actors in most societies and are involved in many different roles. Amongst other activities, they engage in peace operations, support the police in fighting crime, support civilian authorities in dealing with natural disasters, and fight against terrorists and in internal conflicts. The existing literature on this subject is limited in its discussion of warfighting and thus does not do justice to the variety of roles. This second edition not only fills this important lacuna but offers an up-to-...
Los caminos del agua
El agua fluyey a su paso siembra vida. Desde siempre, los territorios dependen de ese importante recurso y sus dinámicas sociales se organizan en torno a la gestión del agua. Por eso, el acceso al agua, si bien es un derecho, implica también una disputa entre los diferentes actores de un territorio. En el escenario actual, que tiene como marco un modelo de desarrollo capitalista y globalizado, se priorizan los intereses de la agroindustria de exportación y la minería, funcionales al capital, en detrimento de los sectores campesinos y de pequeños productores. Que el agua viaja libre es una expresión que ya no refleja la realidad en muchos lugares del mundo y particularmente en los paí...
Development Banks and Sustainability in the Andean Amazon
This book explores what development banks, governments, and communities have learned in the last decade of careful negotiation between social and environmental protections in the Andean Amazon, and the pressures of a surging infrastructure and development boom. While mega-dams, highways, and ports are filling up the pipelines of planners, the national governments of Andean and Amazon-basin countries and major development banks have enacted ambitious social and environmental protections. The book traces the development of social and environmental protections after years of struggle by affected communities, going beyond official policies to discover how these reforms work in practice, and ulti...
El otro partido
Acabamos de asistir a un mundial de fútbol luego de 36 años y el país entero ha vibrado de emoción y patriotismo deportivo. Sin embargo, es hora de preguntarnos: ¿por qué los logros del fútbol peruano han sido escasos o excepcionales? ¿Qué impide que nuestro fútbol sea más competitivo en el ámbito internacional? Si alguna vez tuvimos una "época dorada" de triunfos, ¿cuáles han sido las razones por las que nos ha resultado tan difícil triunfar? Estas son las preguntas que se hacen los peruanos y que los autores de este libro buscan responder. Por ello, El otro partido: la disputa por el gobierno del fútbol peruano analiza el proceso de formación institucional del fútbol pro...
