In addition to its established interest in the relationships among states, corporations, and
communities near extraction sites, recent anthropological and allied interdisciplinary interest …

What makes resources political? We often imagine that politics is something done to
resources (ie larger contestations over access to and control over resources). In this second …

Globally, the extraction of minerals and fossil fuels is increasingly penetrating into isolated
regions inhabited by indigenous peoples, potentially undermining their livelihoods and well …

In oil-dependent nations, the governance of national oil reserves and the redistribution of oil
rents are often widely-perceived as moral endeavours, necessary for achieving a minimum …

Introduction Political ecology is largely an Anglophone research tradition. It has had, over
the years, varying levels of contact and exchange with other linguistic, cultural, and regional …

In his essay 'Environment and economy', Eric Hirsch laments the lack of dialogue between
economic and environmental anthropology. Environmental anthropologists, he suggests …

Established scholarship on the governance of natural resources focuses on either material
or ideational motivations in explaining states' nationalist policies. Based on the case of …

ABSTRACT The Green New Deal (GND) has emerged on the national stage as a plan to
address climate change by reforming the energy system. It would be hugely expensive, and …

Abstract In late 2007, Hugo Chavez joined Rafael Correa on the western coast of Ecuador to
officially initiate construction of what is projected to be one of the largest petrochemical …

Recent “oil shocks” in the form of not only price volatility, but also catastrophic oil spills,
growing acceptance of climate change, and public contestations over oil wars and major …