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Contesting Extractivism: Conceptual, Theoretical and Normative Reflections

verfasst von : Jonas Wolff

Erschienen in: Contested Extractivism, Society and the State

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Abstract

The concluding chapter discusses three overarching questions that are crucial for the academic study of the interactive practices through which extractivism is contested. First, taking the notion of contested extractivism seriously, the chapter discusses the types of contestation of extractivism that are highlighted in the literature and suggests a specific way of conceptualizing this object of research. Second, addressing this volume’s focus on state-society relations, the complex relationship between the contestation of extractivism and democracy is discussed. Third, the chapter concludes with reflecting on an important normative tension that is associated with an academic approach that combines a critical perspective on extractivism with the empirical study of its contestation by those affected.

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Fußnoten
1
In terms of the literature that this chapter engages with, I disproportionately rely on studies on Latin America, which is the region and the research I happen to know best. Still, as the contributions to this volume document, the issues addressed are certainly of global relevance.
 
2
As long as contestation ‘only’ concerns the distribution of benefits from extraction, the implementation of extractive projects or the organisation of the extractive sector, there is no reason inherent to democracy for why democratic regimes should not, in general, be able to process the ensuing conflicts in institutional and peaceful ways.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Contesting Extractivism: Conceptual, Theoretical and Normative Reflections
verfasst von
Jonas Wolff
Copyright-Jahr
2017
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58811-1_11