If the company belongs to you, how can you be against it?' Limiting participation and taming dissent in neo-extractivist Bolivia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2157252
AutoresAlmut Schilling-Vacaflor (0000-0002-0549-8034, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen44
Número3
Páginas658-676
Fecha de publicación2017-05-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03066150.2016.1216984
OpenAlexW2531535174
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas34

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

Agency (philosophy · Development economics · Dissent · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics · Indigenous · Indigenous rights · Limiting · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Politics and Society in Latin America · Ecology