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What does post-neoliberal resource governance consist of in Brazil and Chile? Can extractive justice be delivered under this political economy? In this chapter, I attempt to provide a sketch of emerging extraction-based growth strategies by focusing on how states, firms, and labor unions reconstitute their relationship in periods of commodity boom. Instead of binary models of governance between neoliberal and post-neoliberal “moments” that characterize the central Andean region, such historical ruptures and an anti-Washington Consensus agenda seem less apparent in Brazil and Chile. The economic reforms in mining are instead characterized by political continuities with changes, in terms of the orientation of state politics and the relationship between business firms and workers. Contemporary strategies of extracting rents for social development in Latin America cannot be simply categorized with reference to the weight of the state in relation to the market, or the degree of globalized integration. Political elites in all countries face public pressures of addressing the poverty and inequality legacies of the past, and the improvement of social justice depends on the ability of these elites to find pragmatic strategies to deliver both growth and social equality that were undermined by the neoliberal policy agenda.
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Singh, J.T.N. (2012). Extraction as a Space of Social Justice? Commodity Production and Labor Rights in Brazil and Chile. In: Haarstad, H. (eds) New Political Spaces in Latin American Natural Resource Governance. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137073723_11
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