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Accepted Paper:
(Participatory) resource governance and the dynamics of indigenous movement mobilisation in Bolivia
Annegret Maehler
(GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies)
Paper short abstract:
The paper seeks to explore through which mechanisms natural resource extraction is driving social movement mobilisation of indigenous minorities in Bolivia and if novel participatory resource governance measures are able to mitigate local grievances and appease contentious collective action.
Paper long abstract:
Under what conditions does natural resource exploitation lead to contentious mobilization of ethnic minorities and can contentious collective action be mitigated by (more) participatory governance measures such as prior consultation of local people?
Based on extensive semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions with indigenous representatives and organisations the paper tries to answer these questions by realising micro-level analyses of three local cases of indigenous lowland minorities in Bolivia.
Using social movement theory approaches and more recent literature on the so-called resource-curse, comparative results indicate that apart from local organizational structures especially the broader dynamics of state appropriation of the local arena matters for explaining the mobilization effect of indigenous minorities in gas extraction areas: resource extraction seems to shape the local perception of the overall range of authority of the central state. This also has important implications for resource governance measures to address resource-related grievances.
Civil society and social movement mobilisation: lessons from Latin America
Session 1