Resource Governance and Developmental States in the Global South ― Critical International Political Economy Perspectives

Using the framework of critical international political economy, the contributors challenge the long held views about the ways natural resources shape political and economic outcomes. They examine how the specific features of the resource sector creates particular dynamics of policy change, and therefore, the range of development options for the Global South move beyond adopting unregulated, open extractive markets. In so doing, they explore the extent to which neoliberalism as a global political project has both constrained and opened opportunities for economic development in the global South. The volume engages with development theory and political economy literature by exploring the ideational construction, implementation, and subsequent recalibration of mining reforms in the last three decades across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Jewellord T. Nem Singh is Lecturer in Development in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield, UK. He was also Post Doctoral Research Assistant in the Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID), where he remains active as a researcher, including serving as convenor of the IPE of Development cluster.

France Bourgouin is Advisory Services Manager at BSR in Copenhagen, Denmark and affiliated to the Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en developpement international et societe (CIRDIS) at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM), Canada. During the past 12 years, she has been conducting research and consulting on the political economy of mining and mining policy in a development context.