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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chomsky, Aviva

Titel

SOCIAL IMPACTS OF RESOURCE EXTRACTION

Ist Teil von

• Latin American Research Review, 2016-01, Vol.51 (1), p.243-254

Ort / Verlag

Pittsburgh: Latin American Studies Association

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Resource Extraction and Protest in Peru. By Moisés Arce.Pittsburgh, PA:University of Pittsburgh Press,2014. Pp. xxviii +171.$25.95 paper. ISBN:9780822963097.A Land between Waters: Environmental Histories of Modern Mexico. Edited by Christopher R. Boyer.Tucson:University of Arizona Press,2012. Pp. viii +307.$55.00 cloth. ISBN:9780816502493.A History of Mining in Latin America: From the Colonial Era to the Present. By Kendall W. Brown.Albuquerque:University of New Mexico Press,2012. Pp. xix +257.$34.95 paper. ISBN:9780826351067.From Enron to Evo: Pipeline Politics, Global Environmentalism, and Indigenous Rights in Bolivia. By Derrick Hindery.Tucson:University of Arizona Press,2013. Pp. xxiii +303.$26.95 paper. ISBN:9780816531400.La Frontera: Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile’s Frontier Territory. By Thomas Miller Klubock.Durham, NC:Duke University Press,2014. Pp. vii +385.$27.95 paper. ISBN:9780822356035.The five books under review here examine social and environmental aspects of resource extraction in Latin America’s past and present. Three focus on mining and energy, the classic extractive industries, offering perspectives of a historian, a geographer, and a political scientist. These three concentrate on the Andes, a key site for mineral extraction from the colonial era to the present. Historian Kendall Brown gives a sweeping comparative overview of Latin American mining, contrasting [End Page 243] the fantastical hopes inspired by the industry with its harsh realities over five hundred years. Geographer Derrick Hindery zooms in on a single oil pipeline in the Bolivian Amazon, looking at how neoliberal and post-neoliberal politics structured the project, and how indigenous and environmental activism grew and intersected in response. Political scientist Moisés Arce compares factors leading to political protest against extractivism in different regions in late twentieth-century Peru. The other two volumes are histories that explore different aspects of resource extraction. La Frontera, by Thomas Klubock, looks at competing claims of subsistence and extractive use in Chile’s southern forests, while many of the essays in Christopher Boyer’s edited collection A Land between Waters examine different forms of resource extraction in the context of Mexico’s environmental history.