New Publication: Contested Consultations in the Extractive Industries: Rights, Processes, and Tensions
Karin Buhmann, lead of the Thematic Network on Arctic Sustainable Resources and Social Responsibility (ASRSR) , and Mark Stoddart, co-lead, are among the editors of a newly published volume on resource extraction and contested consultation practices.
By examining how communities, companies, and governments contest and contribute to the evolution of norms, rules and decision-making procedures that govern stakeholder consultation in the extractive industries; the volume aims to provide a new lens on how international organisations, governments and companies around the world have reformed the regime that governs consultations with community stakeholders about proposed extractive projects.
Consultation regime are often contested, with diverse stakeholders seeking to defend their interests by drawing on different authoritative interpretations of the rules, norms and decision-making procedures that govern stakeholder consultation. Contestation over the meaning, governance and practice of stakeholder consultation is the central thread that ties this book together.
Within this overarching concern, the volume takes a global and comparative perspective that examines the complexity of these intersecting and overlapping consultation requirements, with a particular focus on Indigenous Peoples, using cases from the Global North and Global South, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, The Central African Republic, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Iceland, Ghana, Greenland, Guyana, Norway, and Peru.
Haslam, P.A., Andrews, N., Buhmann, K., Odumosu-Ayanu, I.T., & Stoddart, M. (Eds.). (2025). Contested Consultations in the Extractive Industries: Rights, Processes, and Tensions (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003488507