1. Extractive industries, socio-environmental conflicts and political economic transformations in Andean America / Anthony Bebbington -- 2. The political economy of managing extractives in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru / Jose Carlos Orihuela and Rosemary Thorp -- 3. The politics of extractive...

Recent years have seen increasingly aggressive expansion of the extractive economy in the Andean-Amazonian region, as both hard-rock mining and hydrocarbon frontiers move into new territories and deepen their presence in old ones. In ways reminiscent of the film Avatar, this expansion drives...