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The challenges of doing engaged research – a graduate student reflection
By Remy Franklin It was a morning in early May when I opened my computer to find an email back from the Institutional Review Board providing comments on my application […]
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Remembering Teresa De Anda, pesticides activist
By Tracy Perkins One of the best parts of my work as a scholar involves traveling throughout California to meet environmental justice activists. This usually involves a sit-down interview. It […]
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Special focus: Political ecologies of extractive industries and indigenous peoples
A new series of commentaries (blogs and photo-essays) addresses the political ecology of extractive industries as they intersect with indigenous communities. Mining, power and the limits of public consultation in […]
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Mining, power and the limits of public consultation in Bolivia’s mining sector
By Tom Perreault Latin America is in the midst of a resource boom. As mining, oil, and gas extraction have intensified throughout much of the region over the past two […]
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Blog entry and photostory: “From Enron to Evo: Pipeline Politics, Global Environmentalism, and Indigenous Rights in Bolivia”
By Derrick Hindery From Enron to Evo was published in June 2013 by the University of Arizona Press as part of the First Peoples, New Directions publishing initiative. Through this […]
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Transparency and its Other – Studying the Oil Industry
By Anna Zalik In this post I would like to give a few examples of my experience grappling with non disclosure and enclosure of spaces of contestation surrounding oil industry […]
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Struggles to keep fossil fuels in the ground in Ecuador: Mitigating the Global Challenges to the Good Life
By Pamela Martin As China continues to heavily and strategically invest in oil fields around the world, the dilemma for developing economies has been juxtaposing the benefits and windfalls from […]
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