The Politics of Resource Extraction Indigenous Peoples, Multinational Corporations and the State

International institutions, including the United Nations and World Bank, and numerous multinational companies (MNCs) have voiced concern over the adverse impact of resource extraction activities on the livelihood of indigenous communities. Yet the scale and scope of problems confronting indigenous peoples caused by mineral extraction projects endorsed by governments, international agencies and MNCs is monumental. This raises a paradox: despite the burgeoning number of international charters and national laws asserting the rights of indigenous peoples, they find themselves subjected to discrimination, dispossession and racism. This volume explores this paradox by examining mega resource extraction projects in Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Chad and Cameroon, India, Nigeria, Peru and the Philippines.

This paperback edition includes a new preface outlining recent changes that have occurred between the state, multinational firms and indigenous peoples.

Suzana Sawyer is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University of California, Davis, USA. Her research explores conflicts among indigenous peoples, the extractive industry, and the state. Her book Crude Chronicles (2004) examines these dynamics in Ecuador. Her current research delves into these questions as they emerge in a transnational environmental lawsuit.

Edmund Terence Gomez is Professor of Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya. His publications include The Chinese in Britain, 1800-Present: Economy, Transnationalism and Identity (2008) and Affirmative Action, Ethnicity and Conflict (2013).

Preface to the Paperback Edition
1. Transnational Governmentality in the Context of Resource Extraction; S.Sawyer and E.T.Gomez
2. On Indigenous Identity and a Language of Rights; S.Sawyer and E.T.Gomez
3. State, Capital, Multinational Institutions and Indigenous Peoples; S.Sawyer and E.T.Gomez
4. Indigenous Rights, Mining Corporations and the Australian State; J.Altman
5. Extracting Justice: Natural Gas, Indigenous Mobilization and the Bolivian State; T.Perreault
6. The Broker State and the 'Inevitability' of Progress: The Camisea Project and Indigenous Peoples in Peru; P.Urteaga-Crovetto
7. Development, Power and Identity Politics in the Philippines; R.D.Rovillos and V.Tauli-Corpuz
8. The Nigerian State, Multinational Oil Corporations and the Indigenous Communities of the Niger Delta; B.Naanen
9. Identity, Power and Development: The Kondhs in Orissa, India; V.Xaxa
10. Public-Private Partnership and Institutional Capture: The State, International Institutions and Indigenous Peoples in Chad and Cameroon; K.Horta
11. Identity, Power and Rights: The State, International Institutions and Indigenous Peoples in Canada; M.Davis
12. Attending to the Paradox: Public Governance and Inclusive International Platforms; S.Sawyer and E.T.Gomez
Appendix 1: International Conventions and IFI Policies on Indigenous Rights
Appendix 2: Cross-Section of Domestic Legislation Pertaining to Indigenous Rights
Appendix 3: Legal Institutions and Authorities for the Enforcement of Indigenous Rights