Citizen Engagement, Transparency and Transnational Natural Resource Governance

The CiTRes network aims to examine how transparency, group identity and power are used in the construction of ‘resources’, and in the formation of political subjects, within the context of extraction and governance of natural resources.

LAST PUBLICATIONS

There is no one amongst us with them! Transparency and participation in local natural resource revenue management. Extractive Industries and Society 6(1): 198-205.

Sam A. Kasimba and Päivi Lujala 2018.

To redistribute natural resource revenues back to local communities and to promote equitable beneﬁt-sharing and inclusive decision-making, companies and governments increasingly use local beneﬁt-sharing trust funds (LBSTFs) in resource-rich […]

Has the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative been a success? Identifying and evaluating EITI goals. Resources Policy 51(1): 151-162.

Rustad, Siri A., Philippe Le Billon and Päivi Lujala 2017.

Launched in 2003, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has become a global standard for transparency in extractive sectors. Yet, there remains much debate over the […]

An analysis of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative implementation process. World Development 107(July): 358–381.

Lujala, Päivi 2018.

Download (Open Access) The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has become an international hallmark of the efforts to promote better extractive-sector management and improved societal development in natural resource-rich countries. Since […]

Transnational policy influence and the politics of legitimation. Governance.

Diprose, R., Kurniawan, N. I., & Macdonald, K.

Many domains of transnational policy are now governed through dynamic, multilevel governance processes, encompassing transnational, national, and subnational scales. In such settings, both membership of policy communities and […]

Claiming indigenous rights through participatory mapping and the making of citizenship. Political Geography, 61, 148-159.

Rye, S. A., & Kurniawan, N. I. (2017)

This paper considers how participatory mapping, through the notion of indigeneity, is involved in the making of participants’ political agency and the possible implications for local struggles over […]