The Politics of Resource Extraction

International institutions (United Nations, World Bank) and multinational companies have voiced concern over the adverse impact of resource extraction activities on the livelihood of indigenous communities. This volume examines mega resource extraction projects in Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Chad, Cameroon, India, Nigeria, Peru, the Philippines.

SUZANA SAWYER Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, USA. She is the author of Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador and numerous articles. Her current work examines a longstanding transnational lawsuit on alleged oil contamination.
EDMUND TERENCE GOMEZ Professor of Political Economy at University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Previously, he has held appointments at Leeds University, Murdoch University, Kobe University and UNRISD in Geneva, Switzerland. His publications include Political Business in East Asia and The State, Development and Identity in Multi-ethnic Countries: Ethnicity, Equity and the Nation.