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Title Neoliberalism, gas and livelihoods in northern coastal Mozambique: a real-time analysis of the management of dissent
Full text https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9fh9n5nh
Date 2016
Author(s) Dimon, Joshua Shaw
Contributor(s) Carr, Claudia J
Abstract Oil exploration in the global south experienced a rapid upswing in the 2000s. Since 2000, themajority of new oil-producing states have been in the developing world. Eastern Africa, inparticular, has experienced one of the most significant upsurges in oil and gas development.Starting in 2005, international oil companies embarked on a $500 million exploration program innorthern Mozambique. The history of oil and gas development in the Global South, however, hasmore often than not been one of socio-environmental devastation, violence, expropriation andoppression. While oil and gas development has generated billions of dollars in revenue,producing countries suffer from a set of political and economic crises often referred to as the'resource curse,' and a set of socio-environmental crises excluded from the predominant'resource curse' narrative.This dissertation attempts to bridge these frameworks and extend them by conducting asociohistoric analysis of authority and extraction in rural northern Mozambique through recentdecades of neoliberal adjustments, and evaluating the institutions and policies guiding oil and gasexploration and its social and environmental impacts on local populations. Focusing on recent oil andgas exploration programs in northern, coastal Mozambique, this investigation proceeds by: 1)tracing the co-evolution of institutionalized rural authority and resource extraction from colonialthrough neoliberal adjustments; 2) evaluating the real-time, cumulative impacts to social andenvironmental systems resulting from oil and gas exploration considering already-existinglivelihood stressors; and 3) identifying the mechanisms within the primary state-investor-community forum that operates to limit dissent and community reaction to these negativecumulative impacts--the environmental impact assessment (EIA) public participation meetings.
Subject(s) Environmental justice; Political science; Geography
Language en
Publisher eScholarship, University of California
Type of publication etd
Format application/pdf
Rights public
Identifier qt9fh9n5nh
Repository Berkeley - University of California
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