Ebook: Natural Resource Development and Human Rights in Latin America. State and non-state actors in the promotion and opposition to extractivism

Acknowledgements vii
Notes on contributors ix
List of acronyms and abbreviations xiii
Preface xv
1. Forces of resistance and human rights: deconstructing
natural resource development in Latin America 1
Malayna Raftopoulos and Radosław Powęska
2. Indigenous rights in the era of ‘indigenous state’: how
interethnic conflicts and state appropriation of indigenous
agenda hinder the challenge to extractivism in Bolivia 27
Radosław Powęska
3. REDD+ and human rights in Latin America: addressing
indigenous peoples’ concerns through the use of Human
Rights Impact Assessments 59
Malayna Raftopoulos
4. Violence in the actions of indigenous peoples from the
Amazon region as a result of environmental conflicts 87
Magdalena Krysińska-Kałużna
5. Neogeography, development and human rights in Latin
America 109
Doug Specht
6. From human rights to an urbanising environmental politics:
understanding flood and landslide vulnerability in Brazil’s
coastal mountains 131
Robert Coates
7. Human rights and social-environmental conflict in
Nicaragua’s Grand Canal project 155
Joanna Morley
vi NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS
8. Sustainable development, the politics of place and
decoloniality: contradictory or complementary approaches
to Latin American futures? 189
Bogumiła Lisocka-Jaegermann
Index 205