Fossil Fuels, Oil Companies and Indigenous Peoples: Strategies of Multinational Oil Companies, States and Ethnic Minorities (Action Antrhopology Aktionsethnologie, 1) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 3825897982 ISBN 13: 9783825897987

Verlag: Lit Verlag, 2006

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Reseña del editor:

'Fossil Fuels, Oil Companies, and Indigenous Peoples' is a study of oil production that focuses on the places from which oil is extracted, and on the problems, both environmental and human, created in those places. Global public awareness of the devastating impact of oil extraction on local communities has grown considerably in recent years, due in large part to Ken Saro-Wiwa's work on behalf of the Ogoni in south-eastern Nigeria and his death in 1995 at the hands of Nigeria's military dictatorship. This volume consists of eight case-studies, all of them examining these questions: What can indigenous people do when faced with the destruction of their natural and social habitats? And how do oil companies respond to the various forms of local and indigenous resistance to their activities? The eight case studies deal with oil-producing regions in Alaska, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea and West Siberia and encompass 18 indigenous population groups.

Reseña del editor:

This book is a study of oil production that focuses on the places from which oil is extracted, and on the problems, both environmental and human, created in those places. It consists of eight case-studies, all of them attempting to answer these questions: What can indigenous people do when faced with the destruction of their natural and social habitats? And how do oil companies respond to the various forms of local and indigenous resistance to their activities? The case studies deal with oil-producing regions in Alaska, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea and West Siberia and encompass 18 indigenous population groups.

"Tobias Haller" is a researcher at the Institute of Anthropology at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). "Annja Bloechlinger, Markus John, Esther Marthaler" and "Sabine Ziegler" are members of INFOE (Switzerland).

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• Verlag: Lit Verlag
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 3825897982
• ISBN 13: 9783825897987
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 616
• Herausgeber: Haller Tobias, Blochlinger Annja, John Markus