Mines, Communities, and States: The Local Politics of Natural Resource Extraction in Africa
Cambridge University Press, 4/11/2019
EAN 9781108476935, ISBN10: 1108476937
Hardcover, 270 pages, 24.6 x 23.4 x 2 cm
Language: English
When do local communities benefit from natural resource extraction? In some regions of natural resource extraction, firms provide goods and services to local communities, but in others, protest may occur, leading to government regulatory or repressive intervention. Mines, Communities, and States explores these outcomes in Africa, where natural resource extraction is a particularly important source of revenue for states with otherwise limited capacity. Blending a mixture of methodological approaches, including formal modelling, structured case comparison, and quantitative geo-spatial empirical analysis, it argues that local populations are important actors in extractive regions because they have the potential to impose political and economic costs on the state as well as the extractive firm. Jessica Steinberg argues that governments, in turn, must assess the economic benefits of extraction and the value of political support in the region, and make a calculation about how to manage trade-offs that might arise between these alternatives.
1. Introduction
Part I. The Local Politics of Natural Resource Extraction
A Theory
2. A logic of governance
3. Model
a (more) formal logic
Part II. Local Politics on the Ground
4. On comparative case analysis
5. Two firms, one country
coal in Tete, Mozambique
6. Two countries, one firm
mining the Copperbelt in Zambia and DRC
7. Comparative implications
Part III. Beyond Mozambique, Zambia and DRC
8. Generalizing the theory
9. On social mobilization near mines
10. On repression near mines
11. Conclusion
what next?
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.