A few more chapters are needed for an edited book on natural resource extraction and social justice in Latin America.
The book is tentatively titled ‘Extracting justice? New spaces of politics in Latin American natural resource governance’. It looks at emerging conflicts around redistribution and representation in natural resource governance in Latin America, and the extent to which current governance models in the region contribute to social justice. It explores the idea that it is critical for the region’s development that benefits from natural resource extraction is distributed in ways that are seen as reasonably just by broad sectors of the population, and that social conflicts around extraction are articulated in democratic ways. This means that there has to be democratic and participatory mechanisms, political spaces, for civil society to contest and influence the way resources are governed, as well as proper mechanisms for distributing revenues from resource extraction. Chapters develop this broader theme through case studies focused on particular sectors, countries or perspectives.
A publisher has expressed interest in the book. Most of the chapters have been confirmed, but there is space for chapters on cases that have not been covered so far. We are particularly interested in chapters looking at Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, but also welcome discussions on other cases and contexts that are relevant to the theme.
Please submit abstracts as soon as possible (Feb. 15 at the latest) to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. More information and submission details will be provided. Likely submission date of full chapters is August 2011.
Håvard Haarstad, PhD
Postdoctoral research fellow
Department of Geography
University of Bergen, Norway
http://www.uib.no/personer/Havard.Haarstad
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