The pace of mineral extraction has greatly accelerated since the mid-1950s, with a major
mineral boom taking place in the past decade. Responding to growing demands for more …

This academic review of more than 200 articles, books and reports sheds light to why and
how do communities resist mining and how do their forms of resistance change over time …

We define and explore hydrosocial territories as spatial configurations of people, institutions,
water flows, hydraulic technology and the biophysical environment that revolve around the …

examination of the rapidly growing field of political ecology. Located at the intersection of
geography, anthropology, sociology, and environmental history, political ecology is one of …

This paper addresses new challenges and identifies starting points for development theory
following recent debates in Latin America on 'new or neo-extractivism'. It focuses on the …

Drawing upon the concept of 'accumulation by dispossession', this paper analyses the
expansion of agrarian capital in A rgentina. A case study illustrates the social and …

The world's largest deposits of lithium lie in brines found underneath salt flats in the desert
between Chile, Argentina and Bolivia. Globally, lithium may reduce fossil fuel use by making …

Although 'resources' and 'nationalism'are core analytical categories in geography, the
concept of 'resource nationalism'has received little attention in the discipline. We address …

Abstract From 2002 to 2012, 68 community consultations/referenda on large-scale mining
activities have been conducted in Latin America challenging centralized decision-making …

In this paper I rethink land grabbing in Latin America by decentering the rhetoric of novelty
and the tendency to focus on large‐scale land transactions. To do this, I attend to the …