Post-frontier resource governance : indigenous rights, extraction and conservation in the Peruvian Amazon /

"The 20th century saw an unprecedented scramble for resources, reaching the most remote corners of the world. Simultaneously, a quiet revolution has taken place with environmental protection, land and community rights regimes gradually taking hold, albeit unevenly, across the global South. Instituti...

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Main Author:	Larsen, Peter Bille, 1973- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Series:	International relations and development series.
Subjects:	Ethnoecology > Amazon River Region. Indigenous peoples > Civil rights > Amazon River Region. Indigenous peoples > Land tenure > Amazon River Region. Forests and forestry > Economic aspects > Amazon River Region. Forest conservation > Amazon River Region. Natural resources, Communal > Amazon River Region. Indigenous peoples > Ecology > Amazon River Region. Ethnoecology. Indigenous peoples > Civil rights. Indigenous peoples. Indigenous peoples > Land tenure. Forests and forestry > Economic aspects. Forests and forestry. Forest conservation. Natural resources, Communal. Amazon River Region.
Summary:	"The 20th century saw an unprecedented scramble for resources, reaching the most remote corners of the world. Simultaneously, a quiet revolution has taken place with environmental protection, land and community rights regimes gradually taking hold, albeit unevenly, across the global South. Institutional topographies and policies have never before appeared as green and socially inclusive, yet they coexist with a deepening socio-environmental crisis. Intensified pressures stand in contrast to, persist and even thrive under new environmental and social protection measures. The author offers an anthropological analysis of the paradox. Building on the concept of post-frontier governance, he portrays the host of new regulatory technologies, practices and institutions that nominally close, yet more accurately characterize and restructure, contemporary resource frontiers. This book examines these arrangements ethnographically in the Peruvian Amazon focusing on the Yánesha people and their involvement with the organization and protected area planning, logging and oil development." -- Back cover.