This academic review of more than 200 articles, books and reports sheds light to why and
how do communities resist mining and how do their forms of resistance change over time …

Used to describe state-led efforts to secure greater benefits from a country's resource
stocks,'resource nationalism'is an emerging scholarly concern. Yet writing on this topic has …

that situates current political debates within a deep postcolonial history of biopolitics,
population control, and citizenship policies. Tracing patterns of colonial relations, Sharma …

In 2007, the left came to power in Ecuador. In the years that followed, the “twenty-first-
century socialist” government and a coalition of grassroots activists came to blows over the …

In 2005, Bolivians elected their first indigenous president, Evo Morales. Ushering in a new
“democratic cultural revolution,” Morales promised to overturn neoliberalism and inaugurate …

This paper examines processes of primitive accumulation and livelihood dispossession on
the Bolivian Altiplano. Through empirical examination of the social and environmental …

Penelope Anthias's Limits to Decolonization addresses one of the most important issues in
contemporary indigenous politics: struggles for territory. Based on the experience of thirty-six …

This progress report surveys recent work in human geography on the resource-state nexus.
This choice reflects several contemporary trends in the governance of land, water and …

Recent years have seen increasingly aggressive expansion of extractive industry in the
Andean-Amazonian region. Reminiscent of the film Avatar, this expansion drives conflicts …

This book analyzes why and how fifteen Latin American countries modified their political
institutions to promote the inclusion of women, Afrodescendants, and indigenous peoples …