Sustainability and Social Justice
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Conflicts over extractive industry have emerged as one of the most visible and potentially explosive terrains for struggles over distribution, territory, and inequality in the Andes. We explore these relationships in Bolivia, focusing on gas extraction in the Chaco region of the southeastern department of Tarija. We consider how the expansion of extractive industry intersects with territorializing projects of state, sub-national elites, and indigenous actors as well as with questions of inequality and inequity. We conclude that arguments over the territorial constitution of Bolivia are inevitably also arguments over gas and the contested concepts of equity underlying its governance. © Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 2010. All rights reserved.
This is an original manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Canadian Journal of Development Studies in 2010, available at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02255189.2010.9669291
Publication Title
Canadian Journal of Development Studies
Publication Date
1-1-2010
Volume
30
Issue
1-2
First Page
259
Last Page
280
ISSN
0225-5189
DOI
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02255189.2010.9669291
Keywords
Bolivia, extractive industries, inequality, Latin America, territory
Repository Citation
Bebbington, Denise and Bebbington, Anthony J., "Extraction, Territory, and Inequalities: Gas in the Bolivian Chaco" (2010). Sustainability and Social Justice. 34.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_idce/34
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