Although most countries in the world are rapidly urbanizing, the majority of the global population – particularly the poor – continue to live in rural areas. This Handbook rejects the popular notion that urbanization should be universally encouraged and presents clear evidence of...

In this introduction to the book, Mining in Latin America: Critical Approaches to the New Extraction, I sketch the contours of the broad academic conversations taking place around the new extraction and lay out the key characteristics of the “new extraction.” I further lay out the rationale...

In the context of the current extractive boom in Latin America and beyond, transnational mining corporations are increasingly making use of a growing set of investment rights granted to companies operating in foreign countries. Mining companies take advantage of these rights by arbitration...

In what follows I draw from a variegated set of texts to explore and explain Canada's new concerted effort to protect and promote Canadian extractives abroad. I integrate Immanuel Wallerstein's concept of “protection networks” with Michael Klare's recent writing on resource scarcity and my...

Many developing economies have been receiving increasingly significant amounts of foreign direct investment in mining over the past two decades. As mining expands in these new mineral economies, this sector has become a significant source of social and political conflict. New mineral economies...