The looming depletion of non-renewable resources has increased the global land grab in the past decade. So far however, the question of how and when people can influence economic outcomes has received little attention in the study of social movements.

Based on in-depth ethnographic field research since 2003 in the industrial forestry expansion frontiers in Brazil and elsewhere in the global South, this book presents a novel theory to explain how the interaction between resistance, companies and the state determines investment outcomes. The promotion of contentious agency by organizing and politicizing, campaigning, protesting, networking and engaging in state and corporate-remediated politics whilst maintaining autonomy is central to explaining how impacted people influence resource flows, and block or slow projects they deem harmful to their livelihoods and the environment. The conflicts between globalizing paper and pulp corporations and the landless peasants, indigenous communities and other parties with alternative projects for the planet’s future are studied to illustrate how a great transformation can be built upon progressive counter-movements. This systematic comparison of several cases illustrates the broader principles and problems endemic to the global political economy.

Contentious Agency and Natural Resource Politics will be of strong interest to students and scholars of international relations, international political economy, environmental studies, environmental politics, sociology and social movement studies.

在过去的十年里，不可再生资源的枯竭迫在眉睫，全球对土地的争夺也随之加剧。然而，到目前为止，在社会运动的研究中，人们如何以及何时能够影响经济成果的问题很少受到关注。

基于2003年以来在巴西和全球南方其他地方的工业化林业扩张前沿进行的深入的人种学实地研究，本书提出了一个新颖的理论来解释阻力、公司和国家之间的互动是如何决定投资结果的。通过组织和政治化、竞选、抗议、联网和参与国家和公司调解的政治，同时保持自主性来促进争议机构，是解释受影响的人们如何影响资源流动，以及阻止或减缓他们认为对其生计和环境有害的项目的核心。我们研究了全球化的造纸和纸浆公司与无地农民、原住民社区和其他对地球的未来有替代计划的各方之间的冲突，以说明伟大的转变如何建立在进步的反击运动上。这种对几个案例的系统性比较说明了全球政治经济所特有的更广泛的原则和问题。

国际关系、国际政治经济学、环境研究、环境政治、社会学和社会运动研究的学生和学者将对《有争议的机构和自然资源政治》产生浓厚兴趣。