Material constraints to popular imaginaries: The extractive economy and resource nationalism in Bolivia

Kohl, Benjamin G.; Farthing, Linda

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2012.03.002

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“…Irrespective of average national income, extractive economies may face particular challenges with regard to intra-national inequality because increasing affluence at the national level (e.g., through the increase of rents from the export of primary commodities) is not necessarily linked to an equal share of this affluence by all social groups [71,76,79,80]. Even in countries that attempted to redirect increasing rents of natural resource exports towards marginalized groups in recent years (e.g., Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina), the redistributional effects have remained marginal.…”

Section: Inequality and Justicementioning

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Extractive Economies in Material and Political Terms: Broadening the Analytical Scope

Schaffartzik

Pichler

2017

Sustainability

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In order to curb environmental impact, absolute resource use reductions are urgently needed. To reach this goal, multi-scalar synergies and trade-offs in global resource use must be effectively addressed. We propose that better understanding the role of extractive economieseconomies that extract raw material for export-in global resource use patterns is a prerequisite to identifying such synergies and trade-offs. By combining a system-wide environmental accounting perspective with insights from political ecology and political economy research, we demonstrate that (1) the extractivist expansion may be the corollary of reduced immediate environmental impact in the industrialized countries; and (2) the material flow patterns on which this result is based do not suffice to identify the mechanisms underlying extractivist development and its role in global resource use. Our work on extractive economies illustrates that, in order to supply transformative knowledge for sustainability transformation, biophysical and socio-political conceptualizations of society-nature relations must be more strongly integrated within the interdisciplinary sustainability sciences in general and social ecology in particular.

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Section: Inequality and Justicementioning

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Extractive Economies in Material and Political Terms: Broadening the Analytical Scope

Schaffartzik

Pichler

2017

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“…Host countries have become more concerned about obtaining a bigger cut of the mining revenue pie (Gravelle, 2012). The rise in commodity prices prompted producing countries to raise royalty and taxation in their Farthing, 2012). Resource nationalism has been investigated as a demonstration of a resourceendowed country's motivation to expand its share of resource rent.…”

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The mining policy of the Philippines and «resource nationalism» towards nation-building

Chaloping-March¹

2014

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“…All of these propositions were subsequently put into practice, though it should be noted that the nationalization process carried out since 2005 has been more moderate than the one many protesters originally aspired to. Due to the nationalization of this strategic resource -combined with the relatively high prices for gas on the international market -the country has managed to significantly increase its income from this sector, revenue which has been used to enhance public corporations and to expand social policies (Kohl and Farthing 2012). However, it is not just the benefits that have been growing; projects to explore, exploit, and transport gas have themselves also expanded, producing manifold direct and indirect socioenvironmental impacts.…”

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Contestations Over Indigenous Participation in Bolivia's Extractive Industry: Ideology, Practices, and Legal Norms

Schilling‐Vacaflor

2014

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The participatory rights of indigenous peoples have been at the center of conflicts over resource extraction, which have recently increased in number and intensity across Latin America. Using comprehensive empirical data about the Guaraníes' participation in Bolivia's gas sector, this study finds that competing claims regarding territory, property, participation, and decision making provide important explanations for contestations over consultation practices and legal norms in the country. It argues that the main conflicts can be explained by (1) the Bolivian state's focus on directly affected communities and those with formally recognized land titles, something that clashes with the Guaraníes' principle of "territorial integrity"; (2) the state's conviction that it holds a monopoly over subsoil resources, and the limited rights to participation that it is willing to grant as a consequence, which the Guaraníes reject; and (3) the dissonance between state customs and regulations and Guaraní uses and customs. Terms of use: Documents in

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Material constraints to popular imaginaries: The extractive economy and resource nationalism in Bolivia

Cited by 172 publications

References 24 publications

Extractive Economies in Material and Political Terms: Broadening the Analytical Scope

Extractive Economies in Material and Political Terms: Broadening the Analytical Scope

The mining policy of the Philippines and «resource nationalism» towards nation-building

Contestations Over Indigenous Participation in Bolivia's Extractive Industry: Ideology, Practices, and Legal Norms

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