Natural Resources, Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Latin America

Wong, Marcela Torres

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“…The edited volume Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful (Bittle, Snider, Tombs, and Whyte, 2018), features an article on Brazil (Khoury, 2018), and two articles exploring the connection between imperialism, colonialism, and the crime of the powerful (Agozino, 2018; Atiles, 2018b). The Routledge Book series on Crimes of the Powerful has published three books examining expressions and case study of crimes of the powerful in Latin America (Böhm, 2018; Meirelles, 2019; Torres Wong, 2019). Additionally, Budó (2021) and Mazzeo (2020) have analyzed the criminological impact of the asbestos industry in Brazil from the perspective of crimes of the powerful.…”

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Crimes of the powerful in Latin America and the Caribbean: Toward a research agenda

Atiles

2023

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The scholarship on crimes of the powerful encompasses a critical examination of social harms, and crimes perpetrated by privately or publicly operated businesses and corporations, the state, international organizations, elites, as well as the state‐mediated administrative and political responses to these crimes. Going beyond state‐centric definitions of crime and deviance, this scholarship emphasizes studying power and the harmful and criminogenic operations of the neoliberal‐capitalism. However, this scholarship has overlooked the systemic examination of these crimes in the Global South, Latin America and the Caribbean, and their impact on racialized, gendered, and other marginalized communities. This article aims to contribute to this scholarship by providing an overview of the current developments in the scholarship on crimes of the powerful and proposing some future research areas for Latin America and the Caribbean. Thus, the article aims to demonstrate that the Latin American and Caribbean experiences with crimes of the powerful can expand our understanding of the social harms generated by powerful organizations and actors and magnify the analytical and methodological reach of this critical scholarship.

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Crimes of the powerful in Latin America and the Caribbean: Toward a research agenda

Atiles

2023

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“…Latin America is currently home to the largest volume of environmental conflicts in the world. 64 According to the Environmental Justice Atlas, there are currently 960 ongoing environmental conflicts in the region. 65 These conflicts are intimately tied to the changing contours of the region's political economy.…”

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Indigenous resistance at the frontiers of accumulation: Challenging the coloniality of space in International Relations

Hesketh

2023

Rev. Int. Stud.

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Latin America has long been subjected to colonial development that has negated Indigenous territory. In the present conjuncture, the region is home to the largest volume of environmental conflicts in the world. These conflicts are intrinsically connected to the wider model of neo-extractivist development that has been embraced throughout the continent since the early 2000s. Indigenous communities have frequently been the victims of this model of extractive development, with their territories becoming the primary sites for the aggressive expansion of the resource frontier. This has generated new political conflicts, as Indigenous communities conversely assert claims to territory and resources. In this article, I link these conflicts to what I term the ‘coloniality of space’, whereby Indigenous territorial forms have been theoretically elided from traditional spatial imaginaries within International Relations and concretely negated through practices within the global political economy. Moving beyond the territorial trap of nation-state centrism, Indigenous forms of resistance raise important questions about the subject and actors of International Relations.

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“…Worldwide corporate criminology is still a relatively recent field, including in United States (Clinard & Yeager, 1980; Simpson, 2002), Europe (Castro et al, 2020; Erp et al, 2015), or, among us, in Latin America, with an emphasis in the “crimes of the powerful” and social damage caused by extractive industries, through the lens of state–corporate crimes (Bohm, 2019; Meirelles, 2020; Wong, 2019), but the formation of the identity of Brazilian criminology would be incomplete if we fail to capture the role of broader aspects of corporate crime. It is quite true that corporate crime comes in line with international trends in criminal policy (Hagan, 2010), and law enforcement strategies are contingent to the political context (Lagunes & Svejnar, 2020), without broader explanations of detection, causation, prediction, or even regulatory impact of corporate harmful behavior in the Brazilian society.…”

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The Idea of Corporate Transitional Justice: Paths to Corporate Criminology in Brazil

Saad-Diniz

2021

Criminal Justice Review

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The essay aims to exam corporate complicity with authoritarian regimes of the past and contemporary practices for the purposes of developing the body of corporate criminology. The opening of Brazilian criminological research to the role of companies during the military regime shines new lights on corporate accountability and may, when investigating the corporate complicity with authoritarian dynamics, also open new avenues for the transitional justice studies. Especially with regard to the idea of Corporate Transitional Justice, it assumes the need for broader debates about the historical continuum and different forms of business contributions and aspects of harming and victimizing in the corporate field.

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Natural Resources, Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Latin America

Cited by 56 publications

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Crimes of the powerful in Latin America and the Caribbean: Toward a research agenda

Crimes of the powerful in Latin America and the Caribbean: Toward a research agenda

Indigenous resistance at the frontiers of accumulation: Challenging the coloniality of space in International Relations

The Idea of Corporate Transitional Justice: Paths to Corporate Criminology in Brazil

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