Dramatic expansion and intensification of mineral resource exploitation and development across the global south, especially in Latin America has brought mining more visibly into global public debates and spurred a great deal of controversy and conflict.

Dramatic expansion and intensification of mineral resource exploitation and development across the global south, especially in Latin America has brought mining more visibly into global public debates and spurred a great deal of controversy and conflict. This volume assembles new scholarship that provides critical perspectives on these issues.