Arbitrating Extraction

As global competition for natural resources intensifies, disputes between corporations and states are increasingly resolved through private international tribunals. This book examines investor-state dispute settlement as a key arena of this scramble, asking who controls resource extraction and at what social and environmental costs.

Drawing on anthropology, sociology, history and law, the volume analyses the knowledge practices, valuation methods and governance logics shaping investment law and dispute resolution. It reframes international investment regimes as social phenomena embedded in political and economic relations, with far-reaching implications for environmental justice, resource sovereignty and the restructuring of global supply chains in the Anthropocene.