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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: International Relations and Development SeriesPublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (200 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137381859
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Post-Frontier Resource GovernanceDDC classification:
  • 333.70985/4
LOC classification:
  • JK1-9993
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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