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Negotiating belonging and place: an exploration of mestiza women’s everyday resistance in Cajamarca, Peru. [PDF]
, 2020 Since 1993, the Cajamarca region of Peru has been home to the Yanacocha gold mine, associated with environmental degradation, negative health impacts, and socio-economic consequences.
Boudewijn, Inge
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Plants, 2022 Caryocar coriaceum is an endemic tree of Brazil, occurring mainly in the northeast region in the Cerrado environment. The species, popularly known as “pequi”, produces fruits that are used in the manufacture of oil for food and medicinal purposes.
José Weverton Almeida-Bezerra +9 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between sustainability transitions and local development through the case of Colombia's medicinal cannabis industry. It highlights how neglecting place‐specific needs and development expectations can hinder equitable transitions and reinforce existing socio‐economic disparities.
Diana Morales, Mónica Ramos‐Mejía
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Contribución del pensamiento amerindio a una cosmopolítica americana [PDF]
, 2015 Extractivism has reached its limits as an irreparable process of sacking nature. Amerindian animistic thought, especially that of the Amazon, postulates ontologies of collective vital activity that offer alternatives to the law of value and its ...
Duchesne Winter, Juan
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El neoextractivismo y el neodesarrollismo en los contextos latinoamericano y colombiano
Revista Controversia, 2017 El presente artículo analiza la relación que existe entre en el desarrollo convencional impulsado por los gobiernos latinoamericanos de derecha y el extractivismo convencional como su base económica fundamental, y las diferencias que presenta ese modelo ...
Freddy Freddy Díaz
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REAd, 2011 O trabalho discute o posicionamento de técnicos de nível superior do Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade ICMBIO , em exercício na Amazônia Brasileira, em relação ao ambientalismo e identifica possíveis relações entre os ...
Daniel Santos Menezes +2 more
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Contemporary political ecologies of hydropower: insights from Bolivia and Brazil
Journal of Political Ecology, 2021 Focusing on political ecology's grounded, empirical reading of broader environmental and epistemological claims, we identify two different ways that insights from political ecology can reveal the contemporary relevance of the local scale in critiquing ...
Ed Atkins, Jessica C. Hope
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International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2022 Only recently have scholars of criminology begun to examine a wider spectrum of the effects of digital technologies beyond ‘cybercrime’ to include human rights, privacy, data extractivism and surveillance.
Laura Bedford +3 more
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EPISTEMIC EXTRACTIVISM IN ENGAGED URBAN AND HOUSING RESEARCH: Implications and Counter‐measures
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract What is ‘epistemic extractivism’, and how does it affect researchers who are engaged in urban and housing movements? This essay first explores the contexts of both engaged research and epistemic extractivism, clarifying their meanings and implications. It also disentangles the ethical and methodological risks posed by epistemic extractivism in
Miguel A. Martínez
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Contested Relations Between Resource Extraction and Alternatives to Development : The Case of Lithium Production in Bolivia [PDF]
, 2017 Tämä Pro Gradu-tutkielma tarkastelee ekstraktivismin ja Bolivialaisen vaihtoehdon kehitykselle välistä suhdetta Bolivian Salar de Uyunissa tapahtuvan litiumtuotannon kautta.
Komi, Sanna
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