This multidisciplinary book offers a comparative reading of the conflicts between large mining industries and peasant and indigenous communities in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, focusing on the wider political economy of extractives in Latin America.

Part 1: Political Economies of Extraction 1. Extractive industries, socio-environmental conflicts and political economic transformations in Andean America Anthony Bebbington 2. The political economy of managing extractives in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru Jose Carlos Orihuela and Rosemary Thorp 3 The politics of extractive industries in the Central Andes John Crabtree and Isabel Crabtree-Condor Part 2: Conflicts, Transformations and Institutional Change 4. Social conflict and emergent institutions: hypotheses from Piura, Peru Anthony Bebbington 5. Mining and conflict in Peru: sowing the minerals, reaping a hail of stones Javier Arellano-Yanguas 6. Sovereignty negotiated: anti-mining movements, the state and multinational mining companies under 'Correa's Twenty-First Century Socialism' Jennifer Moore and Teresa VelÁsquez 7. State-indigenous tensions over hydrocarbon expansion in the Bolivian Chaco Denise Humphreys Bebbington 8. Planning development futures in the Ecuadorian Amazon: the expanding oil frontier and the Yasuní-ITT initiative Laura Rival 9. The Camisea gas project: indigenous social movements and international NGOs in the Peruvian Amazon Brian Pratt 10. Household and community responses to mining-related river contamination in the upper Pilcomayo basin, Bolivia David Preston Part 3: Conclusions and Comparisons 11.Afterward: Mining conflict in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru Stuart Kirsch 12. Conclusions Anthony Bebbington