Relating Resource Extraction Pattern with Disasters: Political Ecology of Barbhag Block, Nalbari

2018 ◽  
pp. 393-407
Author(s):  
Snehashish Mitra
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Extraction Pattern

scholarly journals A political ecology perspective on resource extraction and human security in Kenya, Bolivia and Peru

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janpeter Schilling ◽  
Almut Schilling-Vacaflor ◽  
Riccarda Flemmer ◽  
Rebecca Froese
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Resource Extraction

scholarly journals Oil, Power and Social Differentiation: A Political Ecology of Hydrocarbon Extraction in Ghana

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Crucial Ingredient ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Scalar Analysis ◽  
Hydrocarbon Extraction

While there is a voluminous scholarship focused on the nexus between resource extraction and development, the issue of how the harms and benefits of extraction are differentiated among several stakeholders based on factors such as their access to power, authority over decision-making, social status, and gender require further examination. This paper combines theoretical insights from assemblage thinking and political ecology to unpack the intertwined range of actors, networks, and structures of power that inform the differentiated benefits and harms of hydrocarbon extraction in Ghana. It can be observed from this study that power serves as a crucial ingredient in understanding relations among social groups, including purported beneficiaries of extractive activities, and other actors that constitute the networked hydrocarbon industry. Scale also reveals the relational nature of the different levels (i.e. global, national, sub-national, local) at which the socio-ecological ‘goods’ and ‘bads’ of hydrocarbon extraction become manifest. Based on these findings, the paper contributes to ongoing scholarly and policy discussions around extractivism by showing how a multi-scalar analysis reveals a more complex picture of the distributional politics, power asymmetry, and injustice that underpin resource extraction.

scholarly journals Global production networks and natural resource extraction: adding a political ecology perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-193
Author(s):  
Felix M. Dorn ◽  
Christoph Huber
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Production Network ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
Natural Resource Extraction ◽  
Social Autonomy

Abstract. The article examines how to adapt the global production network (GPN) approach to situations of natural resource extraction. Based on an integration of a political ecology perspective into GPN research, we exemplarily apply the GPN framework to the primary sector. Based on extensive qualitative fieldwork regarding Argentine lithium mining and Brazilian soy agribusiness we illustrate that particularly a political ecological environmental perspective allows for a more nuanced and critical analysis of ambiguous local development outcomes. While from a purely economic development perspective in both cases the economic activity (integrated into GPNs) is celebrated as an imperative economic growth driver, our framework helps identify the emergence of unilateral dependencies, a decline of social autonomy and an unequal distribution of environmental risks.

Geographies of production III: Global production in/through nature

2021 ◽  
pp. 030913252110228
Author(s):  
Marion Werner
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Production Network ◽  
Modest Contribution ◽  
Spatially Distributed ◽  
The One

This report draws upon political ecology and nature–society geography to examine the production network–nature nexus. Indebted to these approaches, a growing number of production network and value chain studies are expanding well beyond the field’s traditional remit of environmental governance. This work centers the institutional arrangements of firms, laboratories, workers, and regulations that organize and combine extensive and intensive strategies to appropriate nature’s value. ‘Nature’ is neither input nor output here; rather, it is metabolized in and through the functional coordination of these spatially distributed activities. I explore these themes in recent studies of resource extraction and frontier-making, chemical geographies of biocides, and the material-cum-geographical claims of ethical supply chains. Expanding and deepening the dialogue between conjunctural analyses of states, labor, and supply chains, on the one hand, and how socionatures condition these arrangements, on the other, is both analytically and politically necessary. I offer this, my final report, as a modest contribution to this endeavor.

scholarly journals Locating Discourses and Narratives for Intervention

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-84
Author(s):  
Ashley Scott Kelly ◽  
Xiaoxuan Lu
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Means And Ends ◽  
Territorial Strategies ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractThis chapter, Locating discourses and narratives for intervention, argues that planners and designers engaging in “critical” landscape planning need a proactive, rigorous and reflective approach to assembling the discourses in their projects. Drawing from a selection of articles on the recent political economy and ecology of Laos from post-development theory, cultural anthropology, sociology, political science, political geography, and political ecology, we survey four areas that function as conceptual drivers of the strategic planning proposals featured in Part Two of this book. These areas are (1) The politics of land-use planning and its deployment in the state’s territorial strategies; (2) A brief recounting of origins, since the 1980s, of the paradigm of sustainable development as it was imposed on regulatory institutions of the Global South; (3) The ways large-scale resource extraction is reproduced at capitalism’s frontiers via complex and overlapping patchworks of relations between large-scale infrastructures, state land concessions, and their administration at various scales; and (4) Discourse on “infrastructure” as a concept and our capacity to plan and assess it. These sections are held together by their constructivist and critical theory approaches, focus on the means and ends of neoliberalism, and undercurrents of authority, expertise and the politics of intervention.

scholarly journals What justice and for whom? A political ecology of voice study into ‘senses of justice’ in Peru's Loreto Region

2021 ◽  
pp. 251484862198961
Author(s):  
Adrian Gonzalez
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Alternative Livelihoods ◽  
Local Justice ◽  
Transformative Process ◽  
Pollution Impacts ◽  
Sense Of Justice

This article explores community-based organisation and non-governmental organisation ‘senses of justice’ and their interaction with community procedural environmental justice claims. The research was centred on a study of Peru’s Loreto Region and the pollution impacts from oil extraction. This was conducted through the political ecology of voice theoretical framework which can act as a bridge between the fields of environmental justice and political ecology. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight relevant non-governmental organisations and four community-based organisations operating in Loreto, alongside testimony from other stakeholders. Results show that sense of justice synergies can occur between non-state actors and local communities, achieved through inclusive participatory mechanisms and equitable partnerships. This synergy enables local struggles to be made visible to the wider world as well as heard, evidenced through the grievances being addressed by the state and resource extraction industries. Nevertheless, how transformative these partnerships are is variable, with procedural legal justice offering the most beneficial way for community-based organisations and non-governmental organisations to support local justice struggles. Moreover, to be truly a transformative process, there is a need for these legal justice partnerships to challenge the deeper structural injustice of misrecognition so that human rights, alternative livelihoods and developmental futures are recognised and safeguarded.

scholarly journals Driving development in the Amazon: Extending infrastructural citizenship with political ecology in Bolivia

2021 ◽  
pp. 251484862198961
Author(s):  
Jessica Hope
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
National Park ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Road Building ◽  
The Road ◽  
Ecological Citizenship ◽  
Rural Places ◽  
Building Project

In this paper, I extend the analytical framework of infrastructural citizenship with political ecology and reorientate analysis to rural geographies, extractive infrastructure and indigenous territorial movements. Drawing from recent fieldwork in Bolivia, I argue that an extended conceptual framework of ‘infrastructural ecological citizenship’ better acknowledges the multiple, changing and contested ways that people and rural places co-exist and how these relationships are being reworked as infrastructure and citizenship are co-constituted. I use this framework to analyse a conflict over road building in an indigenous territory and national park in lowland Bolivia – the Isiboro Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park ( Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure; TIPNIS), revealing how the road building project weakened the pre-existing political and material infrastructures that underpinned modes of indigenous territorial citizenship within Bolivia’s Plurinational State, as well as foregrounding how transnational extractive capital has shaped negotiations of territorial place-based citizenship in the TIPNIS. In doing so, I contribute to debates on infrastructural citizenship, resource extraction and sustainable development, revealing the ongoing potency of place-based claims on land and related claims for territorial citizenship.

scholarly journals Resistance is fertile: Toward a political ecology of translocal resistance

Organization ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 135050842199574
Author(s):  
Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee ◽  
Rajiv Maher ◽  
Romy Krämer
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Extractive Industries ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Mining Operations ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Resistance Movements ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
Political Ecologies

There are more than 3000 ongoing conflicts involving the extractive industries (mining, gas, and oil) and communities impacted by extractive activity. Most of these conflicts are in the developing countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In this paper we examine three resistance movements in Brazil, Chile, and India where Indigenous groups are resisting mining operations on their lands. We argue these movements represent forms of translocal subaltern resistance based on local political ecologies of marginalized communities. In particular, we develop the notion of disembeddedness to show how conflicts arise between local political ecologies and the political economy of resource extraction. We contribute to the literature by (1) bridging insights from subaltern studies and political ecology to explain how forms of resistance emerge (2) providing empirical support to theories of translocal resistance by conducting a comparative analysis of resistance movements from three countries. We discuss the theoretical implications of our findings for resistance movements.

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