In a water-scarce, coal-producing region of Colombia, frictions are intensifying over the
environmental impact of the diversion of a creek. Through ethnographic observation, this …

In this paper, we argue that the role of the underground has been discursively absent from
contemporary debates about the Anthropocene. We build on recent geographical …

A proliferation of examinations of vertical, voluminous, subsurface, subterranean/
subaqueous, geological, or underground relationships has emerged in the last few years of …

Energy is increasingly used as a lens to study wider social processes. For political
ecologists,'energy'has usually been seen as a resource or socio-technical system that gives …

Since implementation of its Economic Recovery Program in 1983, Ghana's extractive
industries have come to account for 40% of the total value of the country's exports. An …

Minerals are fundamental for the world's major economies, even following the global
economic downturn in the late 2000s (USGS, 2016). Although the extraction rates of some …

This article discusses how, besides structural and direct modes of violence traditionally
attributed to natural resource exploitation, extractive frontiers also unfold through material …

State mandated corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs emerged in Ecuador in the
1990s, following indigenous protests rooted in social and environmental impacts of oil …

The emerging economies of India and Brazil experienced a strong increase in iron ore
extraction during the late commodities boom. Despite similar extraction trends, these …

This paper addresses institutional and political relationships that govern the interactions
between natural resource extraction, economy and society with a focus on the mining and …