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Political Economies of Extractive Industry: From Documenting Complexity to Informing Current Debates: Introduction to Development and Change Virtual Issue 2 A. Bebbington, T. Bornschlegl and A. Johnson Political Economies of Extractive Industry

Document Type

Article

Abstract

The literature on extractive industries has grown rapidly in recent years both because the empirical significance of resource extraction has increased and because resource extraction necessarily invokes other questions of wider purchase in development studies. This virtual issue brings together articles published in Development and Change on mining, oil and gas extraction since the early 1980s that explore these inter-connections. They focus on certain interfaces: extraction and rural political economy; extraction and policies of economic adjustment; and extraction and development politics. The articles often document the complexity and contextual specificity of these interconnections, but we draw particular attention here to the insights they offer on broader issues such as the relationship between resource extraction, adjustment and neoliberalization. © 2013 International Institute of Social Studies.

Publication Title

Development and Change

Publication Date

2013

ISSN

0012-155X

DOI

10.1111/dech.12057

Keywords

extractive industries, rural political economy, development politics

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