Annegret Mähler
Biographic Data
| ID | 4375054 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annegret Mähler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annegret |
| FAMILY NAME | Mähler |
| SIGNATURE | MAHLER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, Germany |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Indigenous Identity, Natural Resources, and Contentious Politics in Bolivia
How do natural resources and ethnic identity interact to incite or to mitigate social conflict? This article argues that high-value natural resources can act as an important catalyst for the politicization of ethnic, specifically indigenous identity, and contribute to social conflict as they limit the malleability of identity frames and raise the stakes of confrontations. We test this argument using unique sub-national data from Bolivian province…
Drilling Deeper
This article employs an innovative methodology to study causal mechanisms in the oil–conflict link by combining a systematic approach with taking into account country details. Engaging in a deductive test of causal mechanisms in a controlled comparison of four major oil exporters, results show that no oil-related causal mechanism can fully explain the differences in violence. A more inductive analysis complemented by process tracing suggests a mo…
Oil in Venezuela
Contrary to the presumption of the resource curse hypothesis, the oil exporter Venezuela has long been one of the most stable and conflict‐free countries in Latin America. The article analyzes this deviant case by employing a context‐sensitive approach which shows that the link between oil and internal conflicts or stability cannot be understood without considering crucial resource‐specific and non‐resource‐specific contextual conditions. The fin…
Indigenous Identity, Natural Resources, and Contentious Politics in Bolivia
How do natural resources and ethnic identity interact to incite or to mitigate social conflict? This article argues that high-value natural resources can act as an important catalyst for the politicization of ethnic, specifically indigenous identity, and contribute to social conflict as they limit the malleability of identity frames and raise the stakes of confrontations. We test this argument using unique sub-national data from Bolivian province…
Oil in Venezuela
Contrary to the presumption of the resource curse hypothesis, the oil exporter Venezuela has long been one of the most stable and conflict‐free countries in Latin America. The article analyzes this deviant case by employing a context‐sensitive approach which shows that the link between oil and internal conflicts or stability cannot be understood without considering crucial resource‐specific and non‐resource‐specific contextual conditions. The fin…
Drilling Deeper
This article employs an innovative methodology to study causal mechanisms in the oil–conflict link by combining a systematic approach with taking into account country details. Engaging in a deductive test of causal mechanisms in a controlled comparison of four major oil exporters, results show that no oil-related causal mechanism can fully explain the differences in violence. A more inductive analysis complemented by process tracing suggests a mo…
Indigenous Identity, Natural Resources, and Contentious Politics in Bolivia
How do natural resources and ethnic identity interact to incite or to mitigate social conflict? This article argues that high-value natural resources can act as an important catalyst for the politicization of ethnic, specifically indigenous identity, and contribute to social conflict as they limit the malleability of identity frames and raise the stakes of confrontations. We test this argument using unique sub-national data from Bolivian province…
Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Natural Resources and Economic Development (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Archaeology (1 works)