Resource Peripheries in the Global Economy: Networks, Scales, and Places of Extraction (Economic Geography)

This book discusses the conditions that underpin configuration of specific places as resource peripheries and the consequences that such a socio-spatial formation involves for those places. The book thereby provides an interdisciplinary approach underpinned by economic geography, political ecology, resource geography, development studies and political geography. It also discusses the different technological, political and economic changes that make the ongoing production of resource peripheries a distinctive socio-spatial formation under the global economy. Through a global and interdisciplinary perspective that uncovers ongoing political processes, socio-economic changes and socio-ecological dynamics at resource peripheries, this book argues that it is critical to take a more profound appraisal about the socio-spatial processes behind the contemporary way in which capitalism is appropriating and transforming nature. Contents 6 Editors and Contributors 8 1 Introduction: Resource Peripheries in the Global Economy 10 1.1 Introduction 11 1.2 Resource Peripheries: From Local Models Towards Socio-Spatial Relations 13 1.2.1 Changes in Networks 15 1.2.2 Changes in Scales 16 1.2.3 Emerging Issues 17 1.3 Examining the Socio-Spatial Dynamics of Resource Peripheries 19 References 22 Part I Networks 27 2 Commodity Chains and Extractive Peripheries: Coal and Development 28 2.1 Introduction 28 2.2 Natural Resources, Development, and Raw Materialist Lengthened Global Commodity Chains 31 2.3 The Evolution of Coal Commodity Chains Over the Long Term 36 2.3.1 The Materiality of Coal Shapes Coal Commodity Chains 36 2.3.2 Coal Commodity Chains Under British and U.S. Hegemony 38 2.3.3 The Japan-Focused Coal Commodity Chains 40 2.3.4 Divergent Paths for Coal and the Rise of China-Focused Coal Commodity Chains in the 2000s 42 2.4 Conclusion: Lessons from the Evolution of Coal Commodity Chains for Extractive Peripheries 46 References 47 3 Disarticulations in Resource Peripheries: Bolivia’s Oil and Gas Supply Industry 52 3.1 Introduction 52 3.2 The Dark Side of Global Production Networks 54 3.3 Research Methodologies 57 3.4 Downgrading, Exclusion and Non-participation in Bolivia 58 3.4.1 Downgrading 59 3.4.2 Exclusion 60 3.4.3 Non-participation 62 3.5 Conclusion 63 References 65 4 From Resource Peripheries to Emerging Markets: Reconfiguring Positionalities in Global Production Networks 69 4.1 Introduction 69 4.2 Resource Periphery Positionalities in Global Production Networks 71 4.3 Methods 74 4.4 Indonesia: Becoming the World’s Largest Liquified Natural Gas Exporter 74 4.5 Myanmar: Consolidating the Power of Military Rule 78 4.5.1 Contested Borderlands 79 4.5.2 Development of the Yadana Pipeline 79 4.5.3 Election of NLD 81 4.6 Evolving Liquefied Natural Gas Production Networks 82 4.7 New Development Trajectories 83 4.7.1 Indonesia 83 4.7.2 Myanmar 85 4.8 Conclusion 86 References 88 Part II Scales 91 5 Scale as a Lens to Understand Resource Economies in the Global Periphery 92 5.1 Introduction 93 5.2 Resource Peripheries and Uneven Development 93 5.3 Scale as a Lens to Understand Resource Economies in the Global Periphery 95 5.4 Australia and Russia 97 5.5 Resource Dependencies Between the Regional and the Sub-national Scale 98 5.5.1 Northern Komi 98 5.5.2 Pilbara Region 101 5.6 Resource Dependencies Between the Sub-national and National Scales 103 5.6.1 Komi Republic 104 5.6.2 Western Australia 104 5.7 Resource Dependencies Between the National and Global Scales 106 5.8 Conclusions 108 References 109 6 Reproducing the Resource Periphery: Resource Regionalism in the European Union 114 6.1 Introduction 114 6.2 Global Extractivism, Resource Nationalism and Resource Regionalism in a Multi-Scalar Perspective 116 6.3 Raw Materials Policy of the European Union 119 6.4 The Role of Regions in Reproducing the Resource Periphery 123 6.5 Conclusions 125 References 126 7 From the ‘Pampas’ to China: Scale and Space in the South American Soybean Complex 129 7.1 Introduction 129 7.2 Space, Scale, and the Political Economy of Soybean Production 130 7.3 The Soybean Complex in South America 134 7.3.1 Soybean as a Global Commodity 134 7.3.2 National Territories and the Expansion of Soy in South America 136 7.4 Consolidating the Soybean Complex: Production of Scale, Nature, and Bodies 138 7.4.1 Reconfiguring the Regional Scale: Redesigning Landscapes and the Logistics Turn 138 7.4.2 Bodies and Nature: the Environmental and Social Impacts of the Soybean Complex 141 7.5 Conclusion 142 References 143 Part III Emergent Issues 146 8 Space, Scale, and the Global Oil Assemblage: Commodity Frontiers in Resource Peripheries 147 8.1 Space, Scale, and the Oil Assemblage 148 8.2 Petrolic Hyper-extraction in Resource Peripheries 151 8.3 Moving Petroleum: Oil Theft Meets Oil Mafia 155 8.4 The Illicit Life of a Barrel of Oil 159 8.5 The Social Life of the Illegal Tap 161 8.6 The Piratical World 165 8.7 Afterlife of Oil: The Social Space of Illegal Refining 167 8.8 Making Oil Circulate 173 8.9 The Cartel Model of Oil Theft 176 8.10 Frontier Spaces in Resource Peripheries 178 References 180 9 Scalar Implications of Circular Economy Initiatives in Resource Peripheries, the Case of the Salmon Industry in Chile 185 9.1 Introduction 185 9.2 The Salmon Industry in Chile 188 9.3 Waste and Ecological Contradictions 189 9.4 Waste as a Barrier to Accumulation 192 9.5 Waste as Opportunities 193 9.6 The CE as a Solution to the Growing Waste Problems 194 9.7 Challenges: Value Chain, Production Systems, and Chilean Policy 195 9.8 Conclusions 197 References 198 10 No worker’s Land. The Decline of Labour Embeddedness in Resource Peripheries 203 10.1 Introduction 203 10.2 The Position of Labour in Resource Peripheries Agenda 205 10.3 The Decline of Labour Embeddedness and Value Capture in Resource Peripheries 207 10.3.1 Embeddedness 207 10.3.2 Power 208 10.3.3 Value 209 10.3.4 Strategic Coupling and Regional Development 211 10.4 Implications for an Extension of the Resource Peripheries Agenda 212 References 213 "Discusses the conditions that underpin configuration of specific places as resource peripheries and the consequences that such a socio-spatial formation involves for those places. The book thereby provides an interdisciplinary approach underpinned by economic geography, political ecology, resource geography, development studies and political geography. It also discusses the different technological, political and economic changes that make the ongoing production of resource peripheries a distinctive socio-spatial formation under the global economy. Through a global and interdisciplinary perspective that uncovers ongoing political processes, socio-economic changes and socio-ecological dynamics at resource peripheries, this book argues that it is critical to take a more profound appraisal about the socio-spatial processes behind the contemporary way in which capitalism is appropriating and transforming nature."--Page 4 of cover