Post-frontier Resource Governance: Indigenous Rights, Extraction and Conservation in the Peruvian Amazon

by P. Larsen

Overview

The author presents an anthropological analysis of the regulatory technologies that characterize contemporary resource frontiers. He offers an ethnographic portrayal of indigenous rights, resource extraction and environmental politics in the Peruvian Amazon.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137381842
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	04/28/2015
Series:	International Relations and Development Series
Edition description:	2015
Pages:	185
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Peter Bille Larsen is Lecturer of Anthropology, Development and International Governance at the universities of Lucerne and Lausanne, Switzerland. Primary fieldwork sites include the Peruvian Amazon, Viet Nam and global level processes. He has worked extensively with international organizations, NGOs and community-based organizations seeking to deepen anthropological analysis of institutions and practices.

Table of Contents

Foreword; Jonathan Friedman 1. The Post-Frontier Paradox 2. The Peruvian Amazon And Post-Frontier Ethnography 3. Frontier Narratives 4. Decolonizing Indigenous Governance 5. Greening The Frontier 6. The Double-Bind Of Community Conservation 8. Oil Exploration And The Extractive Post-Frontier 9. Indigenous Power And Post-Frontier Politics Concluding Remarks: Theorizing Post-Frontier Governance Post-Script: Biosphere Dreams And Biosfears

Editorial Reviews

Larsen’s book focuses on the Ceja de Selva, or high rainforest of central Peru, and its move in recent decades to what he categorizes as ‘the post-frontier’. … Larsen aims to bring out the complexity and contradictions of this situation, a task he accomplishes very effectively. … an important piece of work, elucidating as it does the contemporary reality of an indigenous people that has implications beyond the Peruvian context.” (Evan Killick, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 22 (3), September, 2016)

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