Kroger, Markus.

Contentious agency and natural resource politics [electronic resource] / Markus Kroger. - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014. - 1 online resource (xiv, 174 p.) : ill. - Rethinking globalizations ; 47 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Theory of contentious agency in natural resource politics -- 2. Accumulation by dispossession in resource exploitation frontiers : the case of industrial forestry in Brazil -- 3. Contentious agency, the Brazilian landless movement and pulp conflict outcomes -- 4. Political games determining resource exploitation pace and style -- 5. Key characters in contemporary global expansion of resource exploitation, illustrated by conflicts over tree plantations.

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Land use--Political aspects.
Nonrenewable natural resources--Political aspects.
Political participation.
Social action.