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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
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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Extracting Extractivism: Technopessimism, Green Anarchism and (Gestures Toward) Indigeneity [PDF]
A certain ethics of technology has begun appearing in extractivismo/extractivism discourses concerning resource extraction in relation to the greater socio-ecological emergency in order to describe a critique of, inter alia, prevalent conceptions of ...
Anglin, Matthew
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Neoliberal extractivism: Brazil in the twenty-first century [PDF]
Neo-extractivism in Latin America increased state revenues and expanded its capacity for income redistribution while leaving a trail of socioecological devastation.
Andrade, Daniela +2 more
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Forestry Extractivism in Uruguay [PDF]
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
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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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
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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Extractivism in Bolivia: spillover effects and impacts on national protected areas
The deepest impacts of extractivism are its spillover effects – the transformations it provokes in public policies (environmental, social and economic) and in terms of key concepts like development, politics, justice, democracy and nature.
Oscar Campanini Gonzales
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This article approaches contemporary extractivism as an environmentally and socially destructive extension of an enduring colonial societal structure. Manifested in massive hydroelectric developments, clearcut logging, mining, and unconventional oil and ...
Anna J. Willow
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