The Resource Blood of extraction : Canadian imperialism in Latin America, Todd Gordon & Jeffery R. Webber
Blood of extraction : Canadian imperialism in Latin America, Todd Gordon & Jeffery R. Webber
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- Summary
- "Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America over the last four years, Blood of Extraction is a critical study of contemporary Canadian intervention in Latin America. It integrates political economy with theories of development and social movements to interrogate the insertion of Canadian multinational corporations (MNCs) into Latin America, the role of the Canadian state in facilitating this process, and the impact of these interconnected dynamics on the region's people and ecology. Canadian-based MNCs, backed by the Canadian state through a coherent strategic framework of trade, diplomacy, development aid, and security policy, have developed extensive economic interests in Latin America over the last two decades. While Canadian investment is occurring across a broad range of sectors, it is most extensive, and controversial, in the resource sector. Canada has the largest mining industry in the world, while Latin America has become the most important regional destination for Canadian resource investment abroad. We demonstrate how resource extraction is a poor source of job creation and typically associated with increased inequality, environmental damage, and the proliferation of human rights abuses. Latin American communities affected by Canadian resource extraction are now organized into hundreds of movements of opposition, from Mexico in the north to Argentina in the south. Blood of Extraction is organized around detailed case studies of Canadian geopolitical engagement with a number of countries in Central America and the Andes. Within each chapter we track the growth of Canadian investment, the human rights and ecological conflicts that attend that investment, and the different strategies mobilized by the Canadian state and embassies to advance the interests of Canadian MNCs in the face of social movement, and occasionally governmental, opposition."--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 390 pages
- Contents
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- Part I. Velvet Gloves and Iron Fists
- Part II. Central America. Authoritarian Capitalism: The New Normal in Honduras -- Mining in the Wake of Genocide: Canadian Corporations in Twenty-First Century Guatemala -- Dispossession and Security in Central America
- Part III. The Andes. Canada's Evil Hour in Colombia -- Agonies of Mineral Dependency in Peru -- Tapping the Veins of Ecuador -- Venezuela's Threat of a Good Example -- An Exercise in Cynicism: "Democracy" and "Security" in the Andes
- Part IV. Expansion Continues, Resistance Persists
- Isbn
- 9781552668306
- Label
- Blood of extraction : Canadian imperialism in Latin America
- Title
- Blood of extraction
- Title remainder
- Canadian imperialism in Latin America
- Statement of responsibility
- Todd Gordon & Jeffery R. Webber
- Subject
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- Imperialism
- Investments, Canadian -- Latin America
- Latin America -- Foreign economic relations -- Canada
- Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects -- Latin America
- Mineral industries -- Political aspects -- Latin America
- Mineral industries -- Social aspects -- Latin America
- Mining corporations -- Canada
- Mining corporations -- Latin America
- Canada -- Foreign economic relations -- Latin America
- Economic development -- Latin America
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America over the last four years, Blood of Extraction is a critical study of contemporary Canadian intervention in Latin America. It integrates political economy with theories of development and social movements to interrogate the insertion of Canadian multinational corporations (MNCs) into Latin America, the role of the Canadian state in facilitating this process, and the impact of these interconnected dynamics on the region's people and ecology. Canadian-based MNCs, backed by the Canadian state through a coherent strategic framework of trade, diplomacy, development aid, and security policy, have developed extensive economic interests in Latin America over the last two decades. While Canadian investment is occurring across a broad range of sectors, it is most extensive, and controversial, in the resource sector. Canada has the largest mining industry in the world, while Latin America has become the most important regional destination for Canadian resource investment abroad. We demonstrate how resource extraction is a poor source of job creation and typically associated with increased inequality, environmental damage, and the proliferation of human rights abuses. Latin American communities affected by Canadian resource extraction are now organized into hundreds of movements of opposition, from Mexico in the north to Argentina in the south. Blood of Extraction is organized around detailed case studies of Canadian geopolitical engagement with a number of countries in Central America and the Andes. Within each chapter we track the growth of Canadian investment, the human rights and ecological conflicts that attend that investment, and the different strategies mobilized by the Canadian state and embassies to advance the interests of Canadian MNCs in the face of social movement, and occasionally governmental, opposition."--
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- Issued also in electronic format.
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- NLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1973-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gordon, Todd
- Dewey number
- 338.2098
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Webber, Jeffery R.
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Mineral industries
- Mineral industries
- Mineral industries
- Mining corporations
- Mining corporations
- Investments, Canadian
- Economic development
- Imperialism
- Canada
- Latin America
- Label
- Blood of extraction : Canadian imperialism in Latin America, Todd Gordon & Jeffery R. Webber
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
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- Part I. Velvet Gloves and Iron Fists
- Part II. Central America. Authoritarian Capitalism: The New Normal in Honduras -- Mining in the Wake of Genocide: Canadian Corporations in Twenty-First Century Guatemala -- Dispossession and Security in Central America
- Part III. The Andes. Canada's Evil Hour in Colombia -- Agonies of Mineral Dependency in Peru -- Tapping the Veins of Ecuador -- Venezuela's Threat of a Good Example -- An Exercise in Cynicism: "Democracy" and "Security" in the Andes
- Part IV. Expansion Continues, Resistance Persists
- Control code
- ocn949988097
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- x, 390 pages
- Isbn
- 9781552668306
- Lccn
- 2016497038
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)949988097
- Label
- Blood of extraction : Canadian imperialism in Latin America, Todd Gordon & Jeffery R. Webber
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Part I. Velvet Gloves and Iron Fists
- Part II. Central America. Authoritarian Capitalism: The New Normal in Honduras -- Mining in the Wake of Genocide: Canadian Corporations in Twenty-First Century Guatemala -- Dispossession and Security in Central America
- Part III. The Andes. Canada's Evil Hour in Colombia -- Agonies of Mineral Dependency in Peru -- Tapping the Veins of Ecuador -- Venezuela's Threat of a Good Example -- An Exercise in Cynicism: "Democracy" and "Security" in the Andes
- Part IV. Expansion Continues, Resistance Persists
- Control code
- ocn949988097
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- x, 390 pages
- Isbn
- 9781552668306
- Lccn
- 2016497038
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)949988097
Subject
- Imperialism
- Investments, Canadian -- Latin America
- Latin America -- Foreign economic relations -- Canada
- Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects -- Latin America
- Mineral industries -- Political aspects -- Latin America
- Mineral industries -- Social aspects -- Latin America
- Mining corporations -- Canada
- Mining corporations -- Latin America
- Canada -- Foreign economic relations -- Latin America
- Economic development -- Latin America
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