‘If the company belongs to you, how can you be against it?’ Limiting participation and taming dissent in neo-extractivist Bolivia
Schilling-Vacaflor A (2017)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2017
Journal
Book Volume: 44
Pages Range: 658-676
Journal Issue: 3
DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2016.1216984
Abstract
The contribution identifies the differentiated strategies used by the government and extraction corporations to limit consultation processes and to tame the dissent of local populations affected by hydrocarbon activities. Based on extensive fieldwork in coca-growing peasant and indigenous Guaraní communities in Bolivia, it discusses how the constraints on communities’ opportunities to exercise voice and agency have been effectively justified through a reliance on the country’s neo-extractivist regime. Furthermore, the analysis of recent retrogressive legal reforms reveals that the Bolivian government has definitely abandoned its original promises to establish ‘progressive neo-extractivism’ with regard to indigenous rights and environmental protection.
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APA:
Schilling-Vacaflor, A. (2017). ‘If the company belongs to you, how can you be against it?’ Limiting participation and taming dissent in neo-extractivist Bolivia. Journal of Peasant Studies, 44(3), 658-676. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2016.1216984
MLA:
Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut. "‘If the company belongs to you, how can you be against it?’ Limiting participation and taming dissent in neo-extractivist Bolivia." Journal of Peasant Studies 44.3 (2017): 658-676.
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