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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Global decarbonization has positioned lithium as a strategic mineral for electric vehicles, battery storage, and low‐carbon development. Yet its extraction raises serious environmental, political, and justice concerns that complicate dominant narratives of clean energy progress.
Jacob Kwakye
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Notes to Reflect on a Political Ecology of Borderland Territories
Íconos, 2018 By recognizing the improvement in geographies of extraction about territories that used to be considered marginal and subaltern until recently, such as the borderland regions, this article discusses, from the perspective of political ecology, the ...
Martha Moncada Paredes
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate change is frequently framed as a technical problem of emissions, risk, finance, adaptation planning, and institutional coordination. This critical integrative review, supported by scoping‐informed searching and transparent eligibility and synthesis procedures, examines how selected Indigenous relational literatures can deepen climate ...
Jacob Kwakye, Basin Nawai Sumaila
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Cosmic Extractivism. How Space Exploration Technologies Reinforce Unequal Ecological Exchange and Expand Capitalist Extractivism [PDF]
This thesis investigates how the growing demand for Rare Earth Elements (REEs), spurred on by space exploration technologies, worsens the effects of unequal ecological exchange and extractivism.
Hensums, Wiebe
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Endangered Salares: micro-disasters in Northern Chile
Tapuya, 2021 This article emerges from a transdisciplinary collaboration between a micro-biologist and an anthropologist deeply concerned with the protection of endangered salares (saltpans) in northern Chile.
Cristóbal Bonelli, Cristina Dorador
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There have been emerging media reports on the impact of cyanide and mercury use in artisanal and small‐scale gold mining (ASGM) operations on community health, especially among pregnant and non‐pregnant women, ASGM miners, and children in rural Africa.
Francis Arthur‐Holmes +2 more
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Unmanagement Education for the Age of Climate Crisis
British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines how embodied, situated and relational experiences outside‐the‐classroom can open space for epistemic dislocations in Management Education under conditions of ecological crisis. Drawing on a qualitative pedagogical experience in a sustainability course in Brazil, informed by Design‐Based Research—whose assumptions of control,
Fernanda Cassab Carreira +1 more
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Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2016 The mining industry has become very dynamic in Argentina and is in fact essential to the country’s economy, repositioning the Andes mountain chain at the heart of economic, political and social issues, on different scales.
Silvina Carrizo +2 more
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FROM NY‐LON TO SILK? Shifting Centres of Attention in the World's Urban Fabric
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This Interventions essay explores Silk Road urbanism's emergence as a rival to New York and London (NY‐LON) for global centre stage in Anglophone urban and regional studies. Through China's Belt and Road Initiative, more attention is being given to urban formations and associated new centralities beyond North Atlantic global/world cities ...
Tim Bunnell, Han Cheng, Wenn Er Tan
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The rapid proliferation of digital technologies has increased interest in extractivism beyond traditional resource sectors. This article provides a review of the Anglophone literature on digital extractivism(s) and advances a new term – digitally ...
Chagnon, Christopher Wetherel
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