Denise Humphreys Bebbington

TL;DR: The authors review evidence regarding debates on the resource curse and the possibility of an extraction-led pathway to development, and describe different types of resistance and social mobilization that have greeted mineral expansion at a range of geographical scales, and consider how far these protests have changed the relationships between mining and political economic change.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the presence and nature of social movements has significant influences both on forms taken by extractive industries (in this case mining) and on the effects of this extraction on rural livelihoods.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the presence and nature of social movements has significant influences both on forms taken by extractive industries (in this case mining), and on the effects of this extraction on rural livelihoods.

TL;DR: In this article, the convergence among the different regimes' ways of governing extraction and socio-environmental conflicts is discussed. And the authors draw on Executive level statements and policy positions as well as on statements by indigenous peoples' organisations.

TL;DR: Geospatial and qualitative data are used to explain how infrastructure and extractive industry lead directly and indirectly to deforestation, forest degradation, and increasingly precarious rights for forest peoples in Amazonia, Indonesia, and Mesoamerica.