Oil Sparks in the Amazon: Local Conflicts, Indigenous Populations, and Natural Resources

Author/Contributor(s):	Vasquez, Patricia I
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	02/01/2014
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Vásquez writes that, while oil busts and civil wars are common, the tension over oil in the Amazon has played out differently, in a way inextricable from the region itself, and she argues that each case should be analyzed with attention to its specific sociopolitical and economic context.