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Oil sparks in the Amazon : local conflicts, indigenous populations, and natural resources

Title: Oil sparks in the Amazon : local conflicts, indigenous populations, and natural resources / Patricia I Vasquez.
Author: Vasquez, Patricia I.
Publication: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2014.

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Description

xix, 187 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

"For decades, studies of oil-related conflicts focused on the causes and effects of natural resources mismanagement, commonly known as the "resource curse"-the paradoxical connection between oil wealth and economic busts (as in Venezuela) or, in a later twist, the link between the predatory behavior of armed rebel organizations and the abundant natural resources that funded their existence. Patricia Vasquez notes that oil busts and civil wars associated with the resource curse were quite different from the now-predominant local hydrocarbons disputes that are multiplying rapidly in Latin America. These more recent, localized disputes-over land, population displacement, water contamination, oil jobs that are promised but never materialize, etc.-primarily involve Indigenous groups with a different social and cultural identity from the rest of the population. Vasquez spent fifteen years making regular field visits to the oil-producing regions of Latin America and conducting hundreds of interviews with the various stakeholders in these local conflicts. Her book, based on this field research, analyzes the dynamics that characterize each of fifty-five social and environmental conflicts related to oil and gas extraction in the Andean countries (Peru, Ecuador, and Columbia). She is interested not in promulgating a new theory of conflict but in examining the triggers of local hydrocarbons disputes and providing policy recommendations to resolve or prevent them"--

Series Statement

Studies in security and international affairs

Uniform Title

Studies in security and international affairs.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-167) and index.

Contents

Tracing oil- and gas-related conflicts -- Indigenous peoples and natural resource development -- Structural causes of local conflicts -- Transient triggers of local conflicts.

Call Number

JBE 15-216

ISBN

9780820345611 (hardback)
082034561X (hardcover)
9780820345628 (paperback)
0820345628 (paperback)

LCCN

2013014541

OCLC

841897228

Author

Vasquez, Patricia I.

Title

Oil sparks in the Amazon : local conflicts, indigenous populations, and natural resources / Patricia I Vasquez.

Publisher

Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in security and international affairs

Studies in security and international affairs.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-167) and index.

Research Call Number

JBE 15-216

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