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Oil Spills, Contamination, and Unruly Engagements with Indigenous Peoples in the Peruvian Amazon

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New Political Spaces in Latin American Natural Resource Governance

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This chapter explores unruly engagements in the case of an onshore oil spill in Amazonia. “Unruly engagements” refers here to the oil company’s strategies for handling knowledge, information, participation, resources, and relationships in irregular ways in order to manage the effects of contamination and to remain detached from its social and environmental responsibilities. Currently, in the Peruvian Amazon, these strategies reinforce a form of extraction that enables the oil company to operate relatively undisturbed from the critique of public entities and civil society, and their calls for remediating action.

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Okamoto, T., Leifsen, E. (2012). Oil Spills, Contamination, and Unruly Engagements with Indigenous Peoples in the Peruvian Amazon. In: Haarstad, H. (eds) New Political Spaces in Latin American Natural Resource Governance. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137073723_9

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