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Post-frontier resource governance : indigenous rights, extraction and conservation in the Peruvian Amazon /

"The 20th century saw an unprecedented scramble for resources, reaching the most remote corners of the world. Simultaneously, a quiet revolution has taken place with environmental protection, land and community rights regimes gradually taking hold, albeit unevenly, across the global South. In...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Larsen, Peter Bille, 1973- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Series:International relations and development series.
Subjects:
Ethnoecology > Amazon River Region.
Indigenous peoples > Civil rights > Amazon River Region.
Indigenous peoples > Land tenure > Amazon River Region.
Forests and forestry > Economic aspects > Amazon River Region.
Forest conservation > Amazon River Region.
Natural resources, Communal > Amazon River Region.
Amuesha.
Staat.
Governance.
Politischer Wandel.
Naturschutz.
Grenzgebiet.
Ressourcenpolitik.
Peru > Ost.
Forest conservation.
Forests and forestry > Economic aspects.
Indigenous peoples > Civil rights.
Ethnoecology.
Indigenous peoples > Land tenure.
Natural resources, Communal.
Amazon River Region.
Table of Contents:
  • The post-frontier paradox
  • The Peruvian Amazon and post-frontier ethnography
  • Frontier narratives
  • Decolonizing indigenous governance
  • Greening the frontier
  • The double-bind of community conservation
  • Community forestry and post-frontier deforestation
  • Oil exploration and the extractive post-frontier
  • Indigenous power and post-frontier politics
  • Concluding remarks: theorizing post-frontier governance.