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1 online resource : maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Front Cover; About the Editors; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents ; Tables and Figures ; Map; 1: Introduction: Recovering Power from Energy -- Reconsidering the Linkages Between Energy and Development ; Introduction ; Resource Sovereignties ; Contested Powers in Latin America ; A Politics of Renewables ; Beyond National and Regional Borders ; Development, Modernity and Power ; An Anthropology of Energy? ; Critical Institutionalism ; Critical Perspectives on the Energetic State ; The Story of This Book ; Notes ; References. |
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2: Oil Extraction and Territorial Disputes in the Maya Biosphere Reserve Post-War Guatemala ; The Political History of Mining ; Laguna Del Tigre: A Strategic Territory ; The Xan Oil Well ; Population and Land Occupation ; Interest Groups and Social Conflict ; Creating Favourable Public Opinion ; Oil Contracts to the Detriment of National Interests ; The Controversial Role of the State ; The Consequences ; Final Reflections ; Notes ; References ; Webpages ; 3: Gracias A Díos Y Al Gobierno: Electric Power Struggles in Nicaraguan Politics; Background: Nicaragua, State, Society and Electricity. |
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Electric Power to the People Changing Opportunities for Popular Protest ; Conclusion ; Notes ; References ; 4: Wind at the Margins of the State: Autonomy and Renewable Energy Development in Southern Mexico ; Oaxacan Wind Power at a Crossroads ; An Anthropology of Failure ; In the Fading Light of the Black Sun ; Capturing the Meter ; Rescuing the Land from the Wind ; On Fish and Neoliberalism ; Conclusions: Downed Windmills ; Notes ; References ; 5: Oil and Environmental Injustice in Venezuela: An Ethnographic Study of Punta Cardón; Introduction ; Before the Arrival of the Oil Company. |
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The First Contact with Oil People The Attraction of 'Black Gold'; Environmental and Social Impacts ; Dialogue of the Deaf ; Punta Cardón in the 1980s and 1990s ; Punta Cardón Today ; The Environmental Situation Today ; Diverging Epistemologies ; Memories Discarded ; Blaming the Fishermen ; The Politics of Payouts ; Punta Cardón and the Bolivarian Revolution ; Conclusion ; Notes ; References ; 6: 'Everything Moves with Fuel': Energy Politics and the Smuggling of Energy Resources ; Introduction ; Politics and Prices ; Protests and Responses ; Contraband. |
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The Social Embeddedness of Cross-Border TradeConclusions ; Notes ; References ; 7: The Continuous Negotiation of the Authority of Oil- and Gas-Dependent States: The Case of Bolivia ; The Theoretical Ground -- Power, Institutions and Agency ; Public Policies in Countries Dependent on Non-Renewable Natural Resources ; Hydrocarbon Policy and Revenue Redistribution Mechanisms in Bolivia; The Gasolinazo and Government Justifications for Reducing Fuel Subsidies; The Violent Social Reaction to the Reduction in Fuel Subsidies ; Conclusions: Power, Sovereignty and Epistemology ; Notes ; References. |
| Summary |
A study of the relationship between energy production and political power. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Power resources -- Political aspects -- Latin America.
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Power resources -- Political aspects. |
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Latin America. |
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Power resources. |
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Power resources -- Economic aspects -- Latin America.
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Power resources -- Economic aspects. |
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Economic development -- Political aspects -- Latin America.
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Economic development -- Political aspects. |
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Energy industries -- Environmental aspects -- Latin America.
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Energy industries -- Environmental aspects. |
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Energy policy -- Latin America.
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Energy policy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
McNeish, John-Andrew, editor.
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Borchgrevink, Axel, editor.
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Logan, Owen, 1963- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McNeish, John-Andrew. Contested Powers : The Politics of Energy and Development in Latin America. London : Zed Books, ©2015 9781783600922 |
| ISBN |
9781783600946 (electronic book) |
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1783600942 (electronic book) |
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9781783600953 (electronic book) |
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1783600950 (electronic book) |
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9781783600939 |
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9781783600922 |
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9781783600960 |
