Books in the Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development series

Dramatic expansion and intensification of mineral resource exploitation and development across the global south, especially in Latin America has brought mining more visibly into global public debates and spurred a great deal of controversy and conflict. This volume assembles new scholarship that provides critical perspectives on these issues.

This volume explores institutional change and performance in the resource-rich Andean countries during the last resource-boom and in the early post-boom years.

This book offers an overview of the key debates in the burgeoning anthropological literature on resource extraction.

This volume investigates how mining affects societies and communities in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan.

Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life.

Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life.

This book explores emergent forms of governance in mining and extractive industry projects around the world.

This book addresses the changing role of minerals in society and how mining can be made more sustainable.

Rapid industrialisation is promoted by many as the most feasible way of rejuvenating the Indian economy, and as a way of generating employment on a large scale. At the same time, the transfer of land from rural communities and indigenous groups for industrial parks, mining, or Special Economic Zones has emerged as perhaps the most explosive issue in India over the past decade. Industrialising Rural India sheds light on crucial political and social dynamics that unfold today as India seeks to accelerate industrial growth. The volume examines key aspects that are implicated in current processes of industrialisation in rural India, including the evolution of industrial and related policies; the contested role of land transfers, dispossession, and the destruction of the natural resource base more generally; and the popular resistance against industrial projects, extractive industries and Special Economic Zones. Combining the work of scholars long established in their respective fields with the refreshing approach of younger scholars, Industrialising Rural India seeks to chart new ways in the study of contemporary industrialisation and its associated challenges in India. This cutting-edge interdisciplinary work will be of interest to scholars working on industrial development and land questions in India and South Asia alongside those with an interest in sociology , political science and development research.

Dramatic expansion and intensification of mineral resource exploitation and development across the global south, especially in Latin America has brought mining more visibly into global public debates and spurred a great deal of controversy and conflict. This volume assembles new scholarship that provides critical perspectives on these issues.

This book explores emergent forms of governance in mining and extractive industry projects around the world.