TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vásquez,Patricia I.
TI  - Oil sparks in the Amazon: local conflicts, indigenous populations, and natural resources 
T2  - Studies in security and international affairs
SN  - 9780820345611
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Athens, GA
PB  - University of Georgia Press
KW  - conflicts
KW  - social conditions
KW  - oil
KW  - energy
KW  - natural resources
KW  - industry
KW  - South America
KW  - Peru
KW  - Columbia
KW  - Ecuador
KW  - indigenous peoples
KW  - Indians of South America
KW  - petroleum industry and trade
N1  - SIP1806; Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-167) and index
N2  - "For decades, studies of oil-related conflicts focused on the causes and effects of natural resources mismanagement, commonly known as the "resource curse"--The paradoxical connection between oil wealth and economic busts (as in Venezuela) or, in a later twist, the link between the predatory behavior of armed rebel organizations and the abundant natural resources that funded their existence. Patricia Vasquez notes that oil busts and civil wars associated with the resource curse were quite different from the now-predominant local hydrocarbons disputes that are multiplying rapidly in Latin America. These more recent, localized disputes-over land, population displacement, water contamination, oil jobs that are promised but never materialize, etc.-primarily involve Indigenous groups with a different social and cultural identity from the rest of the population. Vasquez spent fifteen years making regular field visits to the oil-producing regions of Latin America and conducting hundreds of interviews with the various stakeholders in these local conflicts. Her book, based on this field research, analyzes the dynamics that characterize each of fifty-five social and environmental conflicts related to oil and gas extraction in the Andean countries (Peru, Ecuador, and Columbia). She is interested not in promulgating a new theory of conflict but in examining the triggers of local hydrocarbons disputes and providing policy recommendations to resolve or prevent them"--
ER  -