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TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘New’ nations
T2 - resource-based development imaginaries in Ghana and Ecuador
AU - Childs, John Robert
AU - Hearn, Julie Francoise
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Third World Quarterly on 06/06/2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01436597.2016.1176859
PY - 2017/4
Y1 - 2017/4
N2 - Recently there have been increasing instances of the return of the state as the central agent of development in resource-rich nations globally. Characterised by both a rhetorical and substantive commitment to increasing control over national resource revenues, this so-called new/neo-extractivism has attracted a debate concerning the extent to which it offers a viable alternative to the imperatives of neoliberal resource extraction. Using two examples, this paper analyses the ways in which the Ghanaian and Ecuadorean states discursively imagine such structural transformations. It highlights the value in analysing the politics of language for strengthening studies of neo-extractivism.
AB - Recently there have been increasing instances of the return of the state as the central agent of development in resource-rich nations globally. Characterised by both a rhetorical and substantive commitment to increasing control over national resource revenues, this so-called new/neo-extractivism has attracted a debate concerning the extent to which it offers a viable alternative to the imperatives of neoliberal resource extraction. Using two examples, this paper analyses the ways in which the Ghanaian and Ecuadorean states discursively imagine such structural transformations. It highlights the value in analysing the politics of language for strengthening studies of neo-extractivism.
KW - resource politics
KW - neo-extractivism
KW - development
KW - imaginaries
KW - Ghana
KW - Educador
U2 - 10.1080/01436597.2016.1176859
DO - 10.1080/01436597.2016.1176859
M3 - Journal article
VL - 38
SP - 844
EP - 861
JO - Third World Quarterly
JF - Third World Quarterly
SN - 0143-6597
IS - 4
ER -