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• 07 oct 2015

  Istanbul

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Toward a new extractivist paradigm in the Global North?

  24th World Congress of Political Science (IPSA 2016)

  This panel aims to critically analyze the ongoing revival of subsurface natural resources extraction in Western countries. Considering the new mining projects emerging in France and in Quebec, for example, but also the recent boom for unconventional oil and gas across the globe, questions on the political aspects of these projects emerge: Which political factors contribute to relocate extractive industries in Western countries where they tended to be declining? Is there qualitative change during the planning and implementation phases of projects, towards public participation and consultation or community profit-sharing?

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