Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Political Ecologies of the Subsoil -- 2. New Geographies of Extractive Industries in Latin America -- 3. Nature and Nation: Hydrocarbons, Governance, and the Territorial Logics of “Resource Nationalism” in Bolivia...

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