Post-frontier Resource Governance : Indigenous Rights, Extraction and Conservation in the Peruvian Amazon / by P. Larsen.

Author
Larsen, P. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed. 2015.
Published/​Created
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Description
1 online resource (XIV, 185 p.)

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Subject(s)
Series
International Relations and Development Series [More in this series]
Summary note
The author presents an anthropological analysis of the regulatory technologies that characterize contemporary resource frontiers. He offers an ethnographic portrayal of indigenous rights, resource extraction and environmental politics in the Peruvian Amazon.
Notes
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language note
English
Contents
  • The post-frontier paradox
  • The Peruvian Amazon and post-frontier ethnography
  • Frontier narratives
  • Decolonizing indigenous governance
  • Greening the frontier
  • The double-bind of community conservation
  • Community forestry and post-frontier deforestation
  • Oil exploration and the extractive post-frontier
  • Indigenous power and post-frontier politics
  • Concluding remarks: theorizing post-frontier governance.
ISBN
1-137-38184-1
Doi
  • 10.1057/9781137381859
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