Contested Powers

Part One: Lifeworlds and Energetic States
 1. Socio-environmental conflicts and territorial disputes in Guatemala: Petroleum exploitation in the Maya Biosphere Reserve - Virgilio Reyes, FLACSO Guatemala
 2. Petroleum activity and environmental injustice in Venezuela: an ethnography of of the community of Punta Cardon - Maria Victoria Canino, IVIC Venezuela
 3. Conflict over Windfarms, Oaxaca, Mexico - Dominic Boyer, Rice University, USA
Part Two: National Visions and Contested Strategies
 4. Gracias a Dios y al gobierno! Electric power struggles and discourses in Nicaraguan politics -  Axel Borchgrevink, HIOA Norway
 5. The politics of distributing hydrocarbon rents in Bolivia: The Gasolinazo of 2010 - Fernanda Wanderley, CIDES UMSA Bolivia
 6. The Pre-Salt of the Earth? Social and political struggles over Brazil's newfound oil - Einar Braathen, Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR).
Part Three: Porous Borders
 7. Contested Powers: Energy Choices and Energy Struggles in Latin America - John-Andrew McNeish, UMB &CMI Norway
 8. Sovereign Loss, Sovereign Things: The smuggling of energy resources from Bolivia to Peru - Cecilie Odegaard, UiB Norway
 9. Doing Well in the Eyes of Capital: Neoliberal Therapeutics from Venezuela to Scotland - Owen Logan, University of Aberdeen
 10. The Emperor's New Clothes: Biofuels Discourse in Brazil - Donald Sawyer, Center for Sustainable Development (CDS), University of Brasilia
Conclusion: Resource Sovereignties and the limits of 'Latin America'