Prelims
Environmental Impacts of Transnational Corporations in the Global South
ISBN: 978-1-78756-035-2, eISBN: 978-1-78756-034-5
ISSN: 0161-7230
Publication date: 13 December 2018
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(2018), "Prelims", Environmental Impacts of Transnational Corporations in the Global South (Research in Political Economy, Vol. 33), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-x. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0161-723020180000033010
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GENERAL EDITOR
Paul Zarembka
State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
EDITORIAL BOARD
Paul Cooney
Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina
Radhika Desai
University of Manitoba, Canada
Thomas Ferguson
University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA
Seongjin Jeong
Gyeongsang National University, South Korea
Jie Meng
Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
Isabel Monal
University of Havana, Cuba
Ozgur Orhangazi
Kadir Has University, Turkey
Jan Toporowski
The School of Oriental and African Studies, UK
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RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY VOLUME 33
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
EDITED BY
PAUL COONEY
Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina
WILLIAM SACHER FRESLON
Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador
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About the Authors
Chapter 1
Paul Cooney received his PhD in Economics from the New School, after obtaining his MS in Chemical Engineering. From 2006 to 2014, he was an Associate Professor at the UFPA in the Brazilian Amazon and since 2014, he is a Professor at the Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (UNGS) in Buenos Aires (Argentina).
William Sacher Freslon holds two PhDs in atmospheric and oceanic sciences, and in economics. He works as a Professor at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Quito, Ecuador. He is the author of ≪Ofensiva Megaminera China en Los Andes≫ (Abya-Yala, 2017), ≪Imperial Canada Inc.≫ (Talonbooks, 2012), and ≪Noir Canada≫ (Ecosociété, 2008).
Chapter 2
Dr Seán Kerins is a Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at The Australian National University. Seán has worked with Indigenous Peoples and local communities for the last 25 years on cultural and natural resource management issues (Australia).
Dr Kirrily Jordan is a Political Economist and Visual Artist at the Australian National University. Her research includes policy analysis focused on the Australian Government’s approach to “work,” “welfare,” and “development” for Australia’s First Nations peoples, and the role of visual and performing arts in advocating for improved policy-making (Australia).
Chapter 3
Patrick Bond is Professor of Political Economy, University of the Witwatersrand, School of Governance, South Africa. His books include Elite Transition (3rd edn, 2014), Politics of Climate Justice (2012), Talk Left, Walk Right (2006), Against Global Apartheid (2003), and Uneven Development (1998) (South Africa).
Chapter 4
Franklin Obeng-Odoom holds a PhD in Political Economy from the University of Sydney in Australia. Currently Associate Professor with Development Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, and member of Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science, University of Helsinki, Finland, he is the author of Oiling the Urban Economy (Routledge, 2014), the substantive editor of African Review of Economics and Finance, and Associate Editor of the Forum for Social Economics. Dr Obeng-Odoom is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (Finland).
Chapter 5
Kristen Lyons is an Environment and Development Sociologist as an Associate Professor based at the University of Queensland in Australia. Her work is focused in Asia and the Pacific, and relates to agriculture and food, mining and extractivism, and forestry and carbon markets (Australia).
Fernanda Claudio is a Medical Anthropologist who is based in Montreal, Canada. Her work focuses on the health of vulnerable groups including refugees, ex-prisoners with intellectual disability, and populations facing results of development.
Chapter 6
Antônio Jeovah de Andrade Meireles is a Professor in the Department of Geography of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) (Brazil). He has experience in Geography, focusing on environmental impacts and integrated environmental processes and also in traditional and ethnic communities in conflicts with large economic enterprises in their ancestral territories.
João Alfredo Telles Melo is an Attorney and Professor of Environmental Law at the September 7th University Center (UNI7); Phd student in PRODEMA (Sustainable Development and Environment Program) at the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil, and a professor of Environmental Law at Centro Universitario 7 de Setembro, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
Magnólia Azevedo Said is an Attorney with specializations in Health, Labor, and the Environment for Sustainable Development and Ecological Economics from UFC and Center for Research and Advisory, ESPLAR (Brazil).
Chapter 7
Sérgio Filipe Pedro, holds a Master Degree in Public Law from the Law Faculty of the New University of Lisbon. Advocacy Officer of FIAN Portugal and member of the Ecology and Society Department, of the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra.
- Prelims
- Introduction
- Part I Extractive Industries, Social Conflict and Dispossession in the Global South
- Chapter 1 Transnational Mining and Accumulation by Dispossession
- Chapter 2 Mining Giants, Indigenous Peoples and Art: Challenging Settler Colonialism in Northern Australia Through Story Painting
- Chapter 3 Ecological-Economic Narratives for Resisting Extractive Industries in Africa
- Chapter 4 Petroleum Accidents in the Global South
- Part II Environmental Conflicts and Transnational Value Chains in the Global South
- Chapter 5 Transnational Corporations, Violence and Suffering: The Environmental, Public Health and Social Impacts From Comparative Case Studies in Zimbabwe and Uganda
- Chapter 6 Environmental Injustice in Northeast Brazil: The Pecém Industrial and Shipping Complex
- Chapter 7 Family Farming, the Environment and the Global Food Chain
- Index