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Blood of extraction :

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1552668304

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1552668452

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1552668460

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9781552668306

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9781552668450

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9781552668467

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Blood of extraction :

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[Book]

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Canadian imperialism in Latin America /

First Statement of Responsibility

Todd Gordon & Jeffery R. Webber.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Winnipeg :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Fernwood Publishing,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2016]

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x, 390 pages :

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illustrations ;

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23 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Velvet gloves and iron fists -- 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 -- 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 -- Expansion continues, resistance persists.

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"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."--

Title

Blood of extraction.

Economic development-- Latin America.

Imperialism.

Investments, Canadian-- Latin America.

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.

Economic development.

Imperialism.

International economic relations.

Investments, Canadian.

Mineral industries-- Environmental aspects.

Mineral industries-- Political aspects.

Mineral industries-- Social aspects.

Mining corporations.

Canada, Foreign economic relations, Latin America.

Latin America, Foreign economic relations, Canada.

Canada, Foreign economic relations, Latin America.

Canada.

Latin America.

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Gordon, Todd,1973-

Webber, Jeffery R.

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20200823042756.0

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