International institutions (United Nations, World Bank) and multinational companies have voiced concern over the adverse impact of resource extraction activities on the livelihood of indigenous communities. This volume examines mega resource extraction projects in Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Chad, Cameroon, India, Nigeria, Peru, the Philippines.

JON ALTMAN Director and Professor at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research of the Australian National University
MEGAN DAVIS Senior Lecturer at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning of the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia
KORINNA HORTA Senior environmental economist for the international programme of Environmental Defense, Washington, DC, USA
BEN NAANEN Professor in the Department of History and Diplomatic Studies of the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
THOMAS PERREAULT Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University, USA
RAYMUNDO D. ROVILLOS Associate Professor of History and Dean of the College of Social Sciences at the University of the Philippines, Banguio
VICTORIA TAULI-CORPUZ Executive Director of the Tebtebba Foundation, Chairperson of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and Convenor of the Asian Indigenous Women's Network
PATRICIA URTEAGA-CROVETTO Lecturer at the Pontificial Catholic University of Peru, and National Coordinator of the 'Concertación' and 'GIRH-Perú' Projects
VIRGINIUS XAXA Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics of the University of Delhi, India

Transnational Governmentality in the Context of Resource Extraction; S.Sawyer & E.T.Gomez On Indigenous Identity and a Language of Rights; S.Sawyer & E.T.Gomez State, Capital, Multinational Institutions and Indigenous Peoples; S.Sawyer & E.T.Gomez Indigenous Rights, Mining Corporations and the Australian State; J.Altman Extracting Justice: Natural Gas, Indigenous Mobilization and the Bolivian State; T.Perreault The Broker State and the 'Inevitability' of Progress: The Camisea Project and Indigenous Peoples in Peru; P.Urteaga-Crovetto Development, Power and Identity Politics in the Philippines; R.D.Rovillos & V.Tauli-Corpuz The Nigerian State, Multinational Oil Corporations and the Indigenous Communities of the Niger Delta; B.Naanen Identity, Power and Development: The Kondhs in Orissa, India; V.Xaxa Public-Private Partnership and Institutional Capture: The State, International Institutions and Indigenous Peoples in Chad and Cameroon; K.Horta Identity, Power and Rights: The State, International Institutions and Indigenous Peoples in Canada; M.Davis Attending to the Paradox: Public Governance and Inclusive International Platforms; S.Sawyer & E.T.Gomez Appendix 1: International Conventions and IFI Policies on Indigenous Rights Appendix 2: Cross-Section of Domestic Legislation Pertaining to Indigenous Rights Appendix 3: Legal Institutions and Authorities for the Enforcement of Indigenous Rights