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Post-Frontier Resource Governance : Indigenous Rights, Extraction and Conservation in the Peruvian Amazon.

Larsen, P.

Post-Frontier Resource Governance : Indigenous Rights, Extraction and Conservation in the Peruvian Amazon. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (200 pages) - International Relations and Development Series . - International Relations and Development Series .

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables and Maps -- Foreword by Jonathan Friedman -- Acknowledgements -- List of Acronyms -- 1 The Post-frontier Paradox -- 2 The Peruvian Amazon and Post-frontier Ethnography -- 3 Frontier Narratives -- 4 Decolonizing Indigenous Governance -- 5 Greening the Frontier -- 6 The Double-bind of Community Conservation -- 7 Community Forestry and Post-frontier Deforestation -- 8 Oil Exploration and the Extractive Post-frontier -- 9 Indigenous Power and Post-frontier Politics -- Concluding Remarks: Theorizing Post-frontier Governance -- Postscript: Biosphere Dreams and Biosfears -- Notes -- References -- Index.

The author presents an anthropological analysis of the regulatory technologies that characterize contemporary resource frontiers. He offers an ethnographic portrayal of indigenous rights, resource extraction and environmental politics in the Peruvian Amazon.

9781137381859


Natural resources.


Electronic books.

JK1-9993

333.70985/4

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