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04765aam a2200553Ii 4500 001 91E2AE1AF5D411E7B33F7C0497128E48 003 SILO 005 20180110010212 008 160531s2016 nsc b 001 0 eng 020 $a 1552668304 020 $a 9781552668306 035 $a (OCoLC)949988097 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c NLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d TOH $d VP@ $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d IAC $d LTSCA $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 043 $a cl----- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/cl $a cl----- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/cl 050 4 $a HD9506.L292 $b G67 2016 055 0 $a HD9506.L292 $b G67 2016 082 04 $a 338.2098 $2 23 100 1 $a Gordon, Todd, $d 1973- $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006054298 245 10 $a Blood of extraction : $b Canadian imperialism in Latin America / $c Todd Gordon & Jeffery R. Webber. 264 1 $a Halifax ; $b Fernwood Publishing, $c [2016] 300 $a x, 390 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America over the last four years, Blood of Extraction is a critical study of contemporary Canadian intervention in Latin America. It integrates political economy with theories of development and social movements to interrogate the insertion of Canadian multinational corporations (MNCs) into Latin America, the role of the Canadian state in facilitating this process, and the impact of these interconnected dynamics on the region's people and ecology. Canadian-based MNCs, backed by the Canadian state through a coherent strategic framework of trade, diplomacy, development aid, and security policy, have developed extensive economic interests in Latin America over the last two decades. While Canadian investment is occurring across a broad range of sectors, it is most extensive, and controversial, in the resource sector. Canada has the largest mining industry in the world, while Latin America has become the most important regional destination for Canadian resource investment abroad. We demonstrate how resource extraction is a poor source of job creation and typically associated with increased inequality, environmental damage, and the proliferation of human rights abuses. Latin American communities affected by Canadian resource extraction are now organized into hundreds of movements of opposition, from Mexico in the north to Argentina in the south. Blood of Extraction is organized around detailed case studies of Canadian geopolitical engagement with a number of countries in Central America and the Andes. Within each chapter we track the growth of Canadian investment, the human rights and ecological conflicts that attend that investment, and the different strategies mobilized by the Canadian state and embassies to advance the interests of Canadian MNCs in the face of social movement, and occasionally governmental, opposition."-- $c Provided by publisher. 530 $a Issued also in electronic format. 650 0 $a Mineral industries $x Political aspects $z Latin America. 650 0 $a Mineral industries $x Social aspects $z Latin America. 650 0 $a Mineral industries $x Environmental aspects $z Latin America. 650 0 $a Mining corporations $z Latin America. 650 0 $a Mining corporations $z Canada. 650 0 $a Investments, Canadian $z Latin America. 650 0 $a Economic development $z Latin America. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009124579 650 0 $a Imperialism. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064628 651 0 $a Canada $x Foreign economic relations $z Latin America. 651 0 $a Latin America $x Foreign economic relations $z Canada. 650 7 $a Economic development. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901785 650 7 $a Imperialism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00968126 650 7 $a International economic relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00976891 650 7 $a Investments, Canadian. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00978345 650 7 $a Mineral industries $x Environmental aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01022250 650 7 $a Mineral industries $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01022307 650 7 $a Mineral industries $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01022315 650 7 $a Mining corporations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01022882 651 7 $a Canada. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204310 651 7 $a Latin America. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01245945 700 1 $a Webber, Jeffery R., $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010078216 776 1 $a Gordon, Todd, 1973-, author. $t Blood of extraction. $w (CaOONL)20169031861 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217031502.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=91E2AE1AF5D411E7B33F7C0497128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search