Governance in the Extractive Industries | 1:a upplagan

Greater understanding of the forms and consequences of investment and disinvestment in the extractive industries is requiredas a result of capitalist expansion, recent declines in global commodity prices, and claims that extractive sector projects, especially in the globalsouth, are poverty reduction projects. This bookexploresemergent forms of governance in mining and extractive industry projects around the world. Chaptersexamine efforts to govern extractive activities across multiple political scales,throughintermediaries, instruments, technologies, discourses, and infrastructures. The contributionsanalysehow multiple micro-processes of rule reverberate through societies to shape the material conditions of everyday life but also politics, social relations, and subjectivities in extractive economies. Detailed case studies are included from Africa (Chad, Nigeria, Rwanda, and São Tomé and Príncipe), Latin America (Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru), and the UN Climate Conference.