This book empirically discusses recent struggles over land and mining exploring state-society
relations conflicts on various scales. In contrast with the existing literature analyses in
this volume deliberately focus on large-scale land use changes both in relation to the
expansion of industrial mining and to agro-industry. The authors contend that there are
significant parallels between contestations over different variants of resource extractivism
as they reflect the same global trends and processes. Chapters draw on critical theoretical
approaches from political ecology political economy spatial theory contentious politics and
the study of democracy. The authors not only provide empirical insights on actual resource
struggles from different world regions based on in-depth field research but also contribute to
theory-building by linking concepts from various critical approaches to one another developing
a perspective for analysing struggles over resources related to current global crisis
phenomena.
