Handbook of Resource Nationalism

Edited by Jesse Salah Ovadia, Associate Professor, University of Windsor, Richard G. Saunders, Associate Professor, York University, Canada and Jewellord T. Nem Singh, Principal Research Fellow in Global Political Economy, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK

• Contents1 Introduction: resource nationalism: histories, practices, and theorizations 1Jesse Salah Ovadia, Richard G. Saunders and Jewellord T. Nem SinghPART I ITERATIONS OF RESOURCE NATIONALISM2 Resource nationalism: models from the Middle East and North Africa(MENA) 27Neil Quilliam and Tom Najem3 From “classic” to “new” resource nationalism in Latin America, 1930– 2025 51Paul Alexander Haslam4 The history of resource nationalism in Southern Africa 69Miles Larmer5 Resource nationalism in Southeast Asia 82Renato Lima-de-Oliveira and Susan Kurdli6 Resource nationalism and Central Asia 97Erika Weinthal7 Resource nationalism in Australia? Mining power and path dependence 113Susan Park, Ainsley Elbra and Oliver Summerfield-Ryan8 Resource localism in Japan: the making of a “have-not” country 125Jin Sato9 The temporal politics of the resource curse and resource nationalism 138Aidan BarlowPART II LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL APPROACHES TO RESOURCENATIONALISM10 Petroleum and mining legal regimes: history and recent trends in theenergy transition 154Damilola S. Olawuyi and Mehrnoosh Aryanpour11 Taxation under resource nationalism 167Raúl Aldaz Peña and Andrés Mejía Acosta12 State capacity, development ideas, and identity: the shifting bargains inpost-2014 oil contracts 184Antulio Rosales13 The political economy of state enterprises in transitional China: resourcenationalism and imagined continuities 199Geoffrey C. Chen and Zhiting Chen14 Corporate social responsibility and responsible resource nationalism 216Bonnie Campbell15 Local content policies and resource nationalism in oil and gas 232Jesse Salah Ovadia and Kelvin Tan16 Resource nationalism and artisanal and small-scale mining: the case ofBolivia 248Chris Huggins17 First Nations resource nationalism: Indigenous communities, local controland benefit sharing in the extractive industries 262Ciaran O’FaircheallaighPART III SOCIAL MOVEMENTS FOR RESOURCE SOVEREIGNTY18 Governing social conflict in mining-affected communities under resourcenationalism: three international investment cases from the Andean region 276David Szablowski19 Anti-extractivism: contesting and empowering resource nationalism in theAmericas 293Thomas Chiasson-LeBel, Tamara Ortega-Uribe, Nathan Edenhoferand Alejandro Artiga-Purcell20 The socio-political dynamics of the Ogoni women’s movement in Nigeria’soil-rich Niger Delta region 311Abosede Omowumi Babatunde21 From protest to power: how social movements shaped the rise and fall oflithium nationalism in Bolivia 325Manuel Olivera Andrade and Craig A. JohnsonPART IV RESOURCE NATIONALISM AND KEY COMMODITIES22 Resource nationalism in oil and gas 342Jesse Salah Ovadia23 An elite compromise: platinum group metals, resource nationalism, andlocal politics in rural South Africa 356Sonwabile Mnwana24 Private actors and resource nationalist strategy in Indonesia’s tin industry 369Nanang Indra Kurniawan and Raras Cahyafitri25 Resource nationalism(s) for whom? Agential constructivist insights fromBotswana’s diamond sector 383Brandon Jamieson, J. Andrew Grant and Benjamin Ofosu-Atuahene26 Nickel, mineral geopolitics, and resource nationalism 406Trissia WijayaPART V CRITICAL MINERALS AND STRATEGIC COMPETITION27 “Critical minerals” and resource nationalism 2.0: why the policy is morecritical than the mineral 425Amir Lebdioui and Thea Riofrancos28 Industrial upgrading and economic statecraft: the dual benefits of China’sresource nationalism in the rare earths sector 448Jewellord T. Nem Singh and Yingfeng Ji29 Resource nationalism through downstreaming: how Indonesia, Chile, andthe Democratic Republic of the Congo respond to Chinese capital in thecritical minerals sector 465Alvin Camba, Ryan Seay and Noah Meyer30 Africa walking while Asia runs: cobalt nationalism and structuraltransformation in Indonesia and the DRC 482Ben Radley31 Resource nationalism in critical minerals: variety of strategies in the SouthAmerican Lithium Triangle 495Martín Obaya32 New spaces for change at the resource frontier? The case of manganesemining in Africa 512John Glenn and Roy Maconachie33 South African ‘hegemony’, ‘critical minerals’ and the history of ‘resourcenationalism’ in Zambia: regional development at an inflection point? 525Michael Nassen Smith34 Resource nationalism old and new: the case of oil and critical rawmaterials in Kazakhstan 544Serik Orazgaliyev, Mereke Tanaguzova and Arman Mussi

‘This Handbook offers a sober yet profound reflection on the contested meaning of resource nationalism in the mineral and oil sectors. It deepens academic understanding of how shifting power, economic interests, and political struggles continually reshape policies and debates over how natural resources should be governed and who controls them.’