Natural Resource Development and Human Rights in Latin America. State and non-state actors in the promotion and opposition to extractivism

Acknowledgements vii Notes on contributors ix List of acronyms and abbreviations xiii Preface xv 1. Forces of resistance and human rights: deconstructing natural resource development in Latin America 1 Malayna Raftopoulos and Radosław Powęska 2. Indigenous rights in the era of ‘indigenous state’: how interethnic conflicts and state appropriation of indigenous agenda hinder the challenge to extractivism in Bolivia 27 Radosław Powęska 3. REDD+ and human rights in Latin America: addressing indigenous peoples’ concerns through the use of Human Rights Impact Assessments 59 Malayna Raftopoulos 4. Violence in the actions of indigenous peoples from the Amazon region as a result of environmental conflicts 87 Magdalena Krysińska-Kałużna 5. Neogeography, development and human rights in Latin America 109 Doug Specht 6. From human rights to an urbanising environmental politics: understanding flood and landslide vulnerability in Brazil’s coastal mountains 131 Robert Coates 7. Human rights and social-environmental conflict in Nicaragua’s Grand Canal project 155 Joanna Morley vi NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS 8. Sustainable development, the politics of place and decoloniality: contradictory or complementary approaches to Latin American futures? 189 Bogumiła Lisocka-Jaegermann Index 205