by Markus Kroger
University of Michigan Press, 2020
Cloth: 978-0-472-13212-6
eISBN: 978-0-472-90239-2 (OA)
eISBN: 978-0-472-12711-5 (standard)
By drawing on a detailed field research and other sources, this book explains precisely which resistance strategies are able to influence both political and economic outcomes. Kröger expands the focus of traditionally Latin American extractivism research to other contexts such as India and the growing extractivist movement in the Global North. In addition, as the book is a multi-sited political ethnography, it will appeal to sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, geographers, and others using field research among other methods to understand globalization and global political interactions. It is the most comprehensive book on the political economy and ecology of iron ore and steel. This is astonishing, given the fact that iron ore is the second-most important commodity in the world after oil.
This timely and important book offers nuanced analysis of the rise of global extractivism and how resistance to it reshapes state and corporate grand projects. Eclectic in its theoretical influences, Iron Will spans a wide terrain of scientific fields: political economy, political ecology, and political sociology, and must be read by academics and activists alike, especially those who are keen on agrarian, environmental, climate, and labor justice issues.
— Saturnino M. Borras Jr."This is a significant contribution to the literature on grassroots challenges to the international mining industry. Krger demonstrates that grassroots political groups are increasingly capable of resisting destructive mining projects by cutting off and regulating access to resources at the point of mineral extraction."
— Al GedicksIron will is an innovative political ethnography that digs into the literature on agrarian political economy, political ecology, world-ecology, and contentious politics. ...Kröger's book offers new insights on why and how the intensification and expansion of the extractivist frontier has been possible at the expense of the environment and the livelihoods of local communities.
— Journal Peasant StudiesIron Will makes a vital contribution to scholarship on the nature of political mobilization and resistance to extractivism in the Global South. The book is an especially welcome addition to the literature on environmentalists... It is necessary to use the rich analyses of Iron Will in our work towards retheorizing and rethinking the epistemologies of social movements that challenge and engage with extractivism.
— MobilizationTo uncover these unique ways of handling conflicts, Kroger claims our attention. Rather than comparing different cases of mining conflicts, this book illuminates how successful local resistance looks like.
— The Extractive Industries and SocietyLabel: University of Helsinki's Faculty of Social Sciences
License: CC BY-NC-ND
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