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, 2021 This chapter discusses the rise of extractivisms in the material resource economy, and as a critical discourse in both activism and academe. Drawing on fieldwork in the Brazilian Amazon, it situates the extractivist turn of the global economy within national and local contexts.
Gills Barry +2 more
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Journal of Political Ecology, 2023 Major companies in the mining industry are strategizing to benefit from the expected rise in demand for energy "transition minerals" that underpin current technologies of decarbonization (such as batteries and wind turbines).
Andy Whitmore, Mads Barbesgaard
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Journal of Political Ecology, 2023 This article explores the seemingly unlikely intersection of jaguar conservation and green extractivism in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. The 'green' or environmental aspect of jaguar conservation, we argue, is largely manufactured, employing the ...
Alejandro Ruelas Espinosa +1 more
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Resistance in retrospect: The multi-temporality of extractivism in the Amazon
Íconos, 2021 Amazonian communities take various political positions in relation to extractivism. These positions are influenced by previous histories of encounter and conflict with the state, extractive companies, and mestizo society. However, much of the research on
Angus Lyall
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Neoliberal extractivism: Brazil in the twenty-first century [PDF]
, 2022 Neo-extractivism in Latin America increased state revenues and expanded its capacity for income redistribution while leaving a trail of socioecological devastation.
Andrade, Daniela +1 more
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Forestry Extractivism in Uruguay [PDF]
, 2021 This chapter assesses how prominent definitions of (agro)extractivism are suited to explain forestry extractivism, and what are the shared and particular qualities of forestry extractivism as it manifests itself in large-scale tree monocultures for pulp ...
Ehrnström-Fuentes, Maria +1 more
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The Politics of Disaster Risk Governance and Neo-Extractivism in Latin America
Politics and Governance, 2020 Latin America is one of the regions facing many disasters with some of the worse impacts. The current governance model has not proven successful in disaster risk reduction.
Andrés Pereira Covarrubias +1 more
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The Visual Politics of Extractivism
, 2023 This chapter draws on empirical research conducted in Argentina to explore the visual politics of extractivism in Latin America. In Argentina, extractivism is symbolically sustained by a visual regime that intertwines narratives of nature, tradition and ...
Serafini, P
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Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 2023 A buoyant debate has grown in political ecology and agrarian studies around the concept of extractivism. It shines a light on forms of human and non-human depletion that fuel contemporary capitalism.
Muriel Côte
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Power and resistance against patriarchal extractivism in Latin America
Scienze del Territorio, 2022 The aim of the paper is to provide a theoretical insight into the feminist concept of cuerpo-territorio and the strict interrelation between the two terms – body and territory –, both object of predatory capitalist exploitation and protagonists of ...
Lorenza Perini
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