Governance in the extractive industries: power, cultural politics and regulation

Governing in the extractive industries : an introduction / Lori Leonard and Siba N. Grovogui -- Tendencies in tension : resource governance and social contradictions in contemporary Bolivia / Tom Perreault -- Mining, criminalization, and the right to protest : everyday constructions of the post-neoliberal Ecuadorian state / Emily Billo -- Preserving illusions : the rule of law and legitimacy under the Chad Pipeline Project / Siba N. Grovogui -- "We own this oil" : artisanal refineries, extractive industries and the politics of oil in Nigeria / Omolade Adunbi -- Converting threats to power : methane extraction in Lake Kivu, Rwanda / Kristin Doughty -- Politics in the public sphere : ENGOs and oil companies in the international climate negotiations, 1987-2001 / Simone Pulver -- Preventing the resource curse : ethnographic notes on an economic experiment / Gisa Weszkalnys -- Illness, compensation, and claims for justice : lessons from the Choropampa mercury spill / Fabiana Li -- Wars of words : experts, oil, and environmental governance in Chad / Lori Leonard -- Post-script : mapping neo-extractive frontiers across Africa and Latin America / Brenda Chalfin

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: governing in the extractive industries; Part I Legal, socio-political and institutional contexts of extraction; 1 Tendencies in tension: resource governance and social contradictions in contemporary Bolivia; 2 Mining, criminalization, and the right to protest: everyday constructions of the post-neoliberal Ecuadorian state; 3 Preserving illusions: the rule of law and legitimacy under the Chad Pipeline Project; Part II Contested imaginaries and claims to resources.