GEOG 140 Lecture 13: Geog140Week8Lec.13
Document Summary
Natural resources and intra-state conflict: three overlapping explanations: resource curse: vulnerability. Natural resource dependence creates context for the emergence of armed conflicts through negative effects on economic performance and quality of governance: resource conflicts: risk. Violent conflicts arise over access to resources for livelihood (land, water) and dispossession from areas with valuable or strategic resources, such as the niger delta in nigeria: conflict resources: opportunity. Highly valuable resources (such as cocaine, right) and diamonds provide motivation and financial means for initiating and sustaining armed conflict. Ethno-territoriality involves the fusion of territoriality with ethnic or national claims. Ethno-territoriality and the inseparability of specific territories from identity and political rule. What is our name then? vojislav ko tunica, former prime minister of serbia. Various types of talk" social narratives, political rhetoric, historical myths, maps and other visual representations, etc. which evoke and invoke ethno-territorial tropes.
