International institutions (United Nations, World Bank) and multinational companies have voiced concern over the adverse impact of resource extraction activitie

Natural resource extraction has fueled protest movements in Latin America and existing research has drawn considerable scholarly attention to the politics of an

Explores the local politics of mining in Africa, explaining when communities benefit, and when conflict and repression occur.

"In the face of new extraction, communities in Latin America's hydrocarbon and mining regions use participatory institutions powerfully. In some cases, communit

During the last decade, the South American continent has seen a strong push for transnational integration, initiated by the former Brazilian president Fernando