Scales, chains and commodities: Mapping out "resource wars"

Geopolitics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 200-205

  Le Billon, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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EID: 33845885554     PISSN: 14650045     EISSN: 15573028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14650040601031305     Document Type: Note

References (13)

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2. See S. A. Marston, J. P. Jones III and K. Woodward, 'Human geography without scale', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographer 30, pp. 416-32
3. and responses by Andrew Jonas and Chris Collinge, C. Sneddon, 'Water Conflicts and River Basins: The Contradictions of Comanagement and Scale in Northeast Thailand', Society and Natural Resources 15/8 (2002) pp. 725-741.
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7. See for example investigations by Global Witness (www.globalwitness.org and expert panels from the United Nations on economic sanctions in Angola and Sierra Leone.
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9. P. Le Billon, 'Fatal Transactions: Conflict Diamonds and the (Anti)Terrorist Consumer', Antipode 38/4 (2006) pp. 778-801.
10. D. Leslie and S. Reimer, 'Spatializing commodity chains', Progress in Human Geography 23/3 (1999) pp. 401-420.
11. N. Cooper, 'State Collapse as Business: The Role of Conflict Trade and the Emerging Control Agenda', Development and Change 33/5 (2002) pp. 935-955
12. B. Korf and H. Fünfgeld, 'War and the Commons: Assessing the Changing Politics of Violence, Access and Entitlements in Sri Lanka', Geoforum 37/3 (2006) pp. 391-403.
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