 | Governance in the Extractive Industries: Power, Cultural Politics and Regulation Subjects: Built Environment; Global Development; Economics Finance Business & Industry; Environment and Sustainability; Geography; Law; Politics & International Relations; Social Sciences; Economics and Development; Environment & the Global South; Environmental Policy; Environmental Law - Environmental Studies; Environmental Management; Environment & Business; Environment & Resources; Environment & Economics; Environmental Law - Law; Environmental Politics; Energy; Business Management and Accounting; Industry & Industrial Studies; Human Geography; International Relations; Sociology & Social Policy; Energy policy and economics; Economic Geography; Development Geography; Global Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility & Business Ethics; Primary Industries; Political Sociology; Greater understanding of the forms and consequences of investment and disinvestment in the extractive industries is required as a result of capitalist expansion, recent declines in global commodity prices, and claims that extractive sector projects, especially in the global south, are poverty reduction projects. This book explores emergent forms of governance in mining and extractive industry projects around the world. Chapters examine efforts to govern extractive activities across multiple political scales, through intermediaries, instruments, technologies, discourses, and infrastructures. The contributions analyse how multiple micro-processes of rule reverberate through societies to shape the material conditions of everyday life but also politics, social relations, and subjectivities in extractive economies. Detailed case studies are included from Africa (Chad, Nigeria, Rwanda, and São Tomé and Príncipe), Latin America (Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru), and the UN Climate Conference. Lori Leonard is a Professor in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University, USA. Siba N. Grovogui is a Professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University, USA. |
