Natural Resource Development and Human Rights in Latin America. State and non-state actors in the promotion and opposition to extractivism

Description

Acknowledgements vii Notes on contributors ix List of acronyms and abbreviations xiii Preface xv 1. Forces of resistance and human rights: deconstructing natural resource development in Latin America 1 Malayna Raftopoulos and Radosław Powęska 2. Indigenous rights in the era of ‘indigenous state’: how interethnic conflicts and state appropriation of indigenous agenda hinder the challenge to extractivism in Bolivia 27 Radosław Powęska 3. REDD+ and human rights in Latin America: addressing indigenous peoples’ concerns through the use of Human Rights Impact Assessments 59 Malayna Raftopoulos 4. Violence in the actions of indigenous peoples from the Amazon region as a result of environmental conflicts 87 Magdalena Krysińska-Kałużna 5. Neogeography, development and human rights in Latin America 109 Doug Specht 6. From human rights to an urbanising environmental politics: understanding flood and landslide vulnerability in Brazil’s coastal mountains 131 Robert Coates 7. Human rights and social-environmental conflict in Nicaragua’s Grand Canal project 155 Joanna Morley vi NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS 8. Sustainable development, the politics of place and decoloniality: contradictory or complementary approaches to Latin American futures? 189 Bogumiła Lisocka-Jaegermann Index 205 Acknowledgements vii Notes on contributors ix List of acronyms and abbreviations xiii Preface xv 1. Forces of resistance and human rights: deconstructing natural resource development in Latin America 1 Malayna Raftopoulos and Radosław Powęska 2. Indigenous rights in the era of ‘indigenous state’: how interethnic conflicts and state appropriation of indigenous agenda hinder the challenge to extractivism in Bolivia 27 Radosław Powęska 3. REDD+ and human rights in Latin America: addressing indigenous peoples’ concerns through the use of Human Rights Impact Assessments 59 Malayna Raftopoulos 4. Violence in the actions of indigenous peoples from the Amazon region as a result of environmental conflicts 87 Magdalena Krysińska-Kałużna 5. Neogeography, development and human rights in Latin America 109 Doug Specht 6. From human rights to an urbanising environmental politics: understanding flood and landslide vulnerability in Brazil’s coastal mountains 131 Robert Coates 7. Human rights and social-environmental conflict in Nicaragua’s Grand Canal project 155 Joanna Morley vi NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS 8. Sustainable development, the politics of place and decoloniality: contradictory or complementary approaches to Latin American futures? 189 Bogumiła Lisocka-Jaegermann Index 205