The Politics of Corporate Resource Exploitation: Social Movement Influence on Paper- and Metal Industry Investments in Brazil and India
Research summary
This research project analyses the influence of social movements on primary sector extractive investments. The theory how social movements influence the politics of corporate resource exploitation will be developed and tested through a comparison of empirical evidence from 30 resource exploitation projects in the forest and metal industries of Brazil and India. The research will identify the generalizable and specific mechanisms and political games by which movements transform the local-global political dynamics in areas where increasing transnationalization of resource flows has taken place. Causal process analysis combined with various methods and Qualitative Comparative Analysis of 30 cases provides a strategy for working through empirical materials collected by field research. The project belongs to the fields of social scientific environmental research and Political Science/World Politics.
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Research title
The Politics of Corporate Resource Exploitation: Social Movement Influence on Paper- and Metal Industry Investments in Brazil and India
Research timeline
1.9.2011 - 1.8.2014
Keywords
BRICS conflicts corporate resource exploitation corporate social responsibility development economic decision-making economic growth forest industry forest policy forestry global South globalization greenfield investment grievances India investment iron mining land grabbing landscape changes mining mobilization Natural resource politics political economy power pulp industry resource frontiers risk analysis social movements social scientific environmental research socio-environmental impacts space state steel industry tree plantations
Region
Latin America
Countries
Finland
Institution
University of Helsinki
Department of Political and Economic Studies
Head of research
Markus Kröger
Contact information
Markus Kröger
markus.kroger@gmail.com
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Record last updated
17.12.2013