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Book Review | Apr 2022

Book review: John-Andrew McNeish (2021) Sovereign Forces: Everyday Challenges to Environmental Governance in Latin America. Berghahn Books.

David Aled Williams (2022)
in Public Anthropologist (Blog)
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In Sovereign Forces John-Andrew McNeish, an anthropologist based in Norway, offers a fresh perspective on "resource sovereignty", identifying sovereignty, at various scales and in different spaces, as a vital analytic concept for understanding land, territory and energy development in Latin America and beyond.

Read more:
https://publicanthropologist.cmi.no/2022/04/27/book-review-john-andrew-mcneish-2021-sovereign-forces-everyday-challenges-to-environmental-governance-in-latin-america-berghahn-books/

David Aled Williams

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  • Climate and Natural Resources
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