Resistance to Mining in the Current and Past World-Historical Conjunctures: A Comparison of Mobilization Against Globalizing Capitalism Across Place and Time

This is an incorporated comparison of resistance to destructive resource extraction by mining in the current and past world-historical conjunctures. The analysis is based on long-term participant observation and field research in the most important mining investment areas in Brazil, India and Finland. The empirical quality of the analysis of the current conjuncture allows to test world-system theories often based not so much upon large-N comparative ethnography. The findings are related to historical ruptures and continuities in resistance, seeking causal explanations and reasons to why mobilization against globalizing capitalism has occurred in some places and times and not others. The mining industry's global and regional trajectories will be historicized and tied into the current events by historical institutional analysis.