Governing Extractive Industries: Politics, Histories, Ideas
Anthony Bebbington, Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Marja Hinfelaar, and Cynthia Sanborn
Abstract
Proposals for more effective natural resource governance emphasize the importance of institutions and governance, but say less about the political conditions under which institutional change occurs. This book synthesizes findings regarding the political drivers of institutional change in extractive industry governance. The authors analyse resource governance from the late nineteenth century to the present in Bolivia, Ghana, Peru, and Zambia. They focus on the ways in which resource governance and national political settlements interact. Special attention is paid to the nature of elite politics ... More
Proposals for more effective natural resource governance emphasize the importance of institutions and governance, but say less about the political conditions under which institutional change occurs. This book synthesizes findings regarding the political drivers of institutional change in extractive industry governance. The authors analyse resource governance from the late nineteenth century to the present in Bolivia, Ghana, Peru, and Zambia. They focus on the ways in which resource governance and national political settlements interact. Special attention is paid to the nature of elite politics, the emergence of new political actors, forms of political contention, changing ideas regarding natural resources and development, the geography of natural resource deposits, and the influence of the transnational political economy of global commodity production. National elites and subnational actors are in continuous contention over extractive industry governance. Resource rents are used by elites to manage this contention and incorporate actors into governing coalitions and overall political settlements. Periodically, new resource frontiers are opened, and new political actors emerge with the power to redefine how extractive industries are governed and used as instruments for development. Colonial and post-colonial histories of resource extraction continue to give political valence to ideas of resource nationalism that mobilize actors who challenge existing institutional arrangements. The book is innovative in its focus on the political longue durée, and the use of in-depth, comparative, country-level analysis in Africa and Latin America, to build a theoretical argument that accounts for both similarity and divergence between these regions.
Keywords:
mining,
extractive industry,
natural resource governance,
political settlements,
Bolivia,
Ghana,
Peru,
Zambia,
inclusive development
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2018 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198820932 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: July 2018 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198820932.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Anthony Bebbington, author
Australia Laureate Fellow, School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Australia; Milton P. and Alice C. Higgins Professor of Environment and Society, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, USA; Professorial Fellow, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK
Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai, author
Senior Lecturer, University of Ghana Business School
Denise Humphreys Bebbington, author
Research Associate Professor, Department of International Development, Community and Environment Clark University
Marja Hinfelaar, author
Director of Research and Programs, Southern African Institute for Policy and Research (SAIPAR)
Cynthia Sanborn, author
Vice President for Research and Full Professor of Political Science, Universidad del Pacífico, Lima
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