Contested powers : the politics of energy and development in Latin America /

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Other Authors: McNeish, John-Andrew (Editor), Borchgrevink, Axel (Editor), Logan, Owen, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Zed Books, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Recovering power from energy--reconsidering the linkages between energy and development / John-Andrew McNeish and Axel Borchgrevink
  • Oil extraction and territorial disputes in the Maya Biosphere Reserve / Virgilio Reyes
  • Gracias a díos y al gobierno: electric power struggles in Nicaraguan politics / Axel Borchgrevink
  • Wind at the margins of the state: autonomy and renewable energy development in southern Mexico / Cymene Howe, Dominic Boyer and Edit Barrera
  • Oil and environmental injustice in Venezuela: an ethnographic study of Punta Cardón / María Victoria Canino and Iselin Åsedotter Strønen
  • 'Everything moves with fuel': energy politics and the smuggling of energy resources / Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard
  • The continuous negotiation of the authority of oil-and gas-dependent states: the case of Bolivia / Fernanda Wanderley
  • Passive revolution? Social and political struggles surrounding Brazil's new-found oil reservoirs / Einar Braathen
  • Doing well in the eyes of capital: cultural transformation form Venezuela to Scotland / Owen Logan
  • Latin America transformed? / John-Andrew McNeish
  • From the King's Peace to transition society / Owen Logan and John-Andrew McNeish.