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Journal Article
Resource Extraction and Conflict in Latin America
2018
Overview
Recent reports by the media and academic studies throughout the region have discussed the tendency towards conflict and controversy caused by an expanding frontier of extraction. The Environmental Justice Atlas is perhaps the best known international effort to map those issues. However, while there are now increasing reports on the growing intensity of these socio-environmental conflicts, in-depth analyses of their causes, impacts and responses remain limited. The extraction of natural resources, and energy resources in particular, link together local social and political changes with capitalism and the global economy--the setting of the interventionist interests of the great powers. In line with Neruda, academic analyses recognizes that there are synergies between energy and social development, and that this relationship relies not only on systems of value, but systems of violence. Here, McNeish analyzing the current wave of socio-environmental conflicts that has resulted from natural resource extraction in Latin America.
