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Post-Frontier Resource Governance: Indigenous Rights, Extraction and Conservation in the Peruvian Amazon (International Relations and Development Series)
Peter Bille Larsen
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Description for Post-Frontier Resource Governance: Indigenous Rights, Extraction and Conservation in the Peruvian Amazon (International Relations and Development Series)
Hardcover. The author presents an anthropological analysis of the regulatory technologies that characterize contemporary resource frontiers. He offers an ethnographic portrayal of indigenous rights, resource extraction and environmental politics in the Peruvian Amazon. Series: International Relations and Development Series. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; KCM; RNF; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 364.
The author presents an anthropological analysis of the regulatory technologies that characterize contemporary resource frontiers. He offers an ethnographic portrayal of indigenous rights, resource extraction and environmental politics in the Peruvian Amazon.
The author presents an anthropological analysis of the regulatory technologies that characterize contemporary resource frontiers. He offers an ethnographic portrayal of indigenous rights, resource extraction and environmental politics in the Peruvian Amazon.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
International Relations and Development Series
Number of Pages
185
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137381842
SKU
V9781137381842
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99-15
About Peter Bille Larsen
Peter Bille Larsen is Lecturer of Anthropology, Development and International Governance at the universities of Lucerne and Lausanne, Switzerland. Primary fieldwork sites include the Peruvian Amazon, Viet Nam and global level processes. He has worked extensively with international organizations, NGOs and community-based organizations seeking to deepen anthropological analysis of institutions and practices.
Reviews for Post-Frontier Resource Governance: Indigenous Rights, Extraction and Conservation in the Peruvian Amazon (International Relations and Development Series)
“Larsen’s book focuses on the Ceja de Selva, or high rainforest of central Peru, and its move in recent decades to what he categorizes as ‘the post-frontier’. … Larsen aims to bring out the complexity and contradictions of this situation, a task he accomplishes very effectively. … an important piece of work, elucidating as it does the contemporary reality of ... Read more