Table Of ContentGovernance in the
Extractive Industries
Greater understanding of the forms and consequences of investment and
disinvestment in the extractive industries is required as a result of capitalist
expansion, recent declines in global commodity prices, and claims that extractive
sector projects, especially in the global south, are poverty reduction projects.
This book explores emergent forms of governance in mining and extractive
industry projects around the world.
Chapters examine efforts to govern extractive activities across multiple
political scales, through intermediaries, instruments, technologies, discourses,
and infrastructures. The contributions analyse how multiple micro-processes
of rule reverberate through societies to shape the material conditions of
everyday life but also politics, social relations, and subjectivities in extractive
economies. Detailed case studies are included from Africa (Chad, Nigeria,
Rwanda, and São Tomé and Príncipe), Latin America (Bolivia, Ecuador, and
Peru), and the UN Climate Conference.
Lori Leonardis a Professor in the Department of Development Sociology at
Cornell University, USA.
Siba N. Grovoguiis a Professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center
at Cornell University, USA.
Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and
Sustainable Development
African Artisanal Mining from the Inside Out
Access, norms and power in Congo’s gold sector
Sarah Geenan
Mountain Movers
Mining, sustainability and the agents of change
Daniel M. Franks
Responsible Mining
Key concepts for industry integrity
Sara Bice
Mining in Latin America
Critical Approaches to the New Extraction
Edited by Kalowatie Deonandan and Michael L. Dougherty
Industrialising Rural India
Land, policy, resistance
Edited by Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Patrik Oskarsson
Governance in the Extractive Industries
Power, cultural politics and regulation
Edited by Lori Leonard and Siba N. Grovogui
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Power, Cultural Politics and
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Contents
List of contributors vii
Acknowledgments x
Introduction: governing in the extractive industries 1
LORI LEONARD AND SIBA N. GROVOGUI
PART I
Legal, socio-political and institutional contexts of
extraction 15
1 Tendencies in tension: resource governance and social
contradictions in contemporary Bolivia 17
TOM PERREAULT
2 Mining, criminalization, and the right to protest: everyday
constructions of the post-neoliberal Ecuadorian state 39
EMILY BILLO
3 Preserving illusions: the rule of law and legitimacy under the
Chad Pipeline Project 57
SIBA N. GROVOGUI
PART II
Contested imaginaries and claims to resources 75
4 “We own this oil”: artisanal refineries, extractive industries, and
the politics of oil in Nigeria 77
OMOLADE ADUNBI
5 Converting threats to power: methane extraction in Lake Kivu,
Rwanda 95
KRISTIN DOUGHTY
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6 A politics of the public sphere: ENGOs and oil companies in
the international climate negotiations, 1987–2001 115
SIMONE PULVER
PART III
Expertise and informational economies 147
7 Preventing the resource curse: ethnographic notes on an
economic experiment 149
GISA WESZKALNYS
8 Illness, compensation, and claims for justice: lessons from
the Choropampa mercury spill 176
FABIANA LI
9 Wars of words: experts, oil, and environmental governance
in Chad 195
LORI LEONARD
10 Post-script: mapping neo-extractive frontiers across Africa
and Latin America 213
BRENDA CHALFIN
Index 220
Contributors
Omolade Adunbi is Associate Professor in the Department of Afroamerican
and African Studies (DAAS) and Faculty Associate in the Program in the
Environment and in the Human Rights Program at the University of
Michigan. He is a political anthropologist whose interests include natural
resource extraction, governance, human and environmental rights, trans -
national institutions, multinational corporations, and the post-colonial state.
He is the author of Oil Wealth and Insurgency in Nigeria (Indiana University
Press, 2015). His current research focuses on the growing interest of China
in Africa’s natural resources and its interrelatedness with infrastructural
projects. He teaches courses on transnationalism, globalization, violence,
human and environmental rights, the post-colonial state, social theory,
resource distribution and contemporary Africa, and culture and politics.
Emily Billo is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Goucher
College. She is a feminist geographer whose research focuses on resource
governance and development in Ecuador. Her research examines the
relationships between the Ecuadorian state, multinational oil companies,
indigenous communities, and Corporate Social Responsibility programs in
Ecuador’s northern Amazon region. Her work has been published
in Geoforum, Progress in Human Geography, and Gender, Place & Culture. Her
current research investigates the criminalization of environmental protests,
a violent strategy of repression carried out by the post-neoliberal Ecuadorian
state as part of state-led mining operations.
Brenda Chalfin is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for
African Studies at the University of Florida. Bringing together cultural
anthropology, geography, and political economy to establish new analytic
points of entry to understanding political life in contemporary African states,
her work addresses the complex functioning of national boundaries and
frontiers, the popular production of infrastructure and urban public goods,
non-territorial and maritime sovereignty, and the changing political valence
of natural resource extraction in the context of late-capitalism. Her
publications include Shea Butter Republic: State Power, Global Markets, and
the Making of an Indigenous Commodity(Routledge, 2004), Neoliberal Frontiers:
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An Ethnography of Sovereignty in West Africa (University of Chicago Press,
2010), and “Governing Off-shore Oil: Mapping Maritime Political Space
in Ghana and the Western Gulf of Guinea,” South Atlantic Quarterly, 2015.
Kristin Doughty is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of
Rochester. She is the author of Remediation in Rwanda: Grassroots Legal Forums
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) that examines how Rwandans
navigated the combination of harmony and punishment in local courts
purportedly designed to rebuild the social fabric in the wake of the 1994
genocide. She is currently conducting ethnographic research on the cultural
politics of energy and unity in post-genocide Rwanda, with a focus on
methane extraction in Lake Kivu.
Siba N’Zatioula Grovogui is Professor of Africana Studies at Cornell
University and was previously Professor of International Relations Theory
and Law at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Sovereigns,
Quasi-Sovereigns, and Africans: Race and Self-determination in International Law
(University of Minnesota Press, 1996) and Beyond Eurocentrism and Anarchy:
Memories of International Institutions and Order (Palgrave, 2006). He is from
Guinea, where he attended law school before serving as law clerk, judge,
and legal counsel for the National Commission on Trade, Agreements, and
Protocols. He is currently working on two manuscripts: Otherwise Human:
Humanitarian Discourses and their Subjectsand Future Anterior: The International,
Past and Present.
Lori Leonard is Associate Professor in the Department of Development
Sociology at Cornell University and Director of the Polson Institute for
Global Development. She is the author of Life in the Time of Oil: A Pipeline
and Poverty in Chad (Indiana University Press, 2016), which is based on 12
years of ethnographic fieldwork around an oil pipeline project in Chad that
the World Bank described as a “model” extractive industry project. Her
research interests span medical anthropology, environmental studies, and
gender studies. She teaches courses on gender and global economic integra -
tion, the sociology of waste, and ethnographic fieldwork.
Fabiana Li is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of
Manitoba. She is the author ofUnearthing Conflict: Corporate Mining, Activism,
and Expertise in Peru (Duke University Press, 2015), that is based primarily
on fieldwork in communities neighboring Peru’s largest gold mine. Her
work has also been published in edited collections on Corporate Social
Responsibility and the anthropology of water. She teaches course on cultural
anthropology, social theory, globalization, and the environment.
Tom Perreault is Professor of Geography at Syracuse University. His research
and teaching focus is on political ecology and environmental justice. His
work examines resource extraction, water governance, rural livelihoods,
indigenous/campesino social movements, and agrarian political economy in
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the Andean region. He is author of over 50 journal articles and book chapters;
editor of Minería, Agua y Justicia Social: Experiencias Comparativas de Perú y
Bolivia (Cusco: Centro Bartolomé de las Casas. and La Paz: PIEB, 2014);
and lead editor (with Gavin Bridge and James McCarthy) of the Routledge
Handbook of Political Ecology (London: Routledge, 2015). He has been
awarded three Fulbright grants, and has been visiting scholar at the
Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), and Universidad Católica
del Norte (San Pedro de Atacama, Chile).
Simone Pulveris Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Director
of the Interdepartmental PhD Emphasis in Environment and Society at the
University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on the
intersection of economic action and environmental harm and seeks to
integrate theoretical frameworks relating to global governance and economic
and environmental sociology. She was previously the Joukowsky Assistant
Research Professor at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International
Studies with a joint appointment in the Center for Environmental Studies.
Gisa Weszkalnysis Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the London School
of Economics. She is the author of Berlin, Alexanderplatz: Transforming Place
in a Unified Germany (Berghahn, 2010) and co-editor of Elusive Promises:
Planning in the Contemporary World (Berghahn, 2013). Her current research
explores speculations, expectations, and fears regarding future oil extraction
in São Tomé and Príncipe, an emergent oil economy in the Gulf of Guinea.
