Resource Peripheries in the Global Economy: Networks, Scales and Places of Extraction

This book discusses the conditions that underpin configuration of specific places as resource peripheries and the consequences that such a socio-spatial formation involves for those places. The book thereby provides an interdisciplinary approach underpinned by economic geography, political ecology, resource geography, development studies and political geography. It also discusses the different technological, political and economic changes that make the ongoing production of resource peripheries a distinctive socio-spatial formation under the global economy. Through a global and interdisciplinary perspective that uncovers ongoing political processes, socio-economic changes and socio-ecological dynamics at resource peripheries, this book argues that it is critical to take a more profound appraisal about the socio-spatial processes behind the contemporary way in which capitalism is appropriating and transforming nature.

Keywords

Resource peripheries, Global economy and resource extraction, Extractive industries and local development, Resource extraction and developing countries, Political contestation and resource extraction, Resource extraction and local content, Resource extraction and local economic linkage, Local impacts of resource extraction, Global production networks and extractive industries, Global value chains and natural resources, Global value chains and local development