Iron WIll Global Extractivism and Mining Resistance in Brazil and India

"Iron Will lays bare the role of extractivist policies and efforts to resist these policies through a deep ethnographic exploration of globally important iron ore mining in Brazil and India. Markus Kröger addresses resistance strategies to extractivism and tracks their success, or lack thereof...

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Main Author: Kröger, Markus (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: University of Michigan Press 2021
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