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Skills for sustainable development: transforming vocational education and training beyond 2015 [PDF]
There have been recent calls to transform VET and to transform development. This double call leads us to ask: how can skills development best support development that is sustainable for individuals, communities and the planet, whilst promoting social ...
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Consolidating the energy transition towards the decarbonization of the global economy demands the growing consumption of minerals and strategic resources. The advance of extractive projects on lithium deposits in the last decade in Latin America and in Argentina in particular implied that local sources of conflict emerged in the region that brought ...
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Roadblock Geographies: A Typology of Extraction, Circulation, and Authority in Conflict
Short Abstract This article develops a typology of roadblock geographies in conflict‐affected borderlands as extractive landscapes. Drawing on transport geography, it identifies how infrastructural variation—footpaths, roads and ports—shapes who extracts rents, how and to what effect.
Peer Schouten
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Feminist critique of bioeconomies: paradigm struggles toward a caring economy
This article addresses the tension between green productivism and reproductivity of human and non-human life from a critical feminist perspective.
Christa Wichterich
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Can You See Us Now? Negotiating Indigenous Citizenship at a Road Blockade in Argentinean Chaco
Short Abstract This paper explores the spatial dimension of Indigenous citizenship by examining how it is experienced, negotiated and enacted during a road blockade in the Argentinean Chaco. Stressing the political dimension of infrastructure, the paper highlights the blockade as a critical site and moment for observing the framing and reframing of ...
Alberto Preci
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Petropower in Law‐Enforcement Advertising at Super Bowl LIX
Short Abstract This paper examines a recruitment commercial from the Super Bowl on 9 February 2025 in terms of its spectacularisation of petroleum's abiding yet volatile influence. The minute‐long piece on behalf of federal law enforcement indicates how the workings of power in the United States of America are entangled with the ubiquity of oil ...
Daniel A. Finch‐Race, Pancho Lewis
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A Good Life for all - A European development model [PDF]
This working paper analyses the potentialities of an eco-solidarian development model for Europe by mobilising theories and experiences from Latin America. The argument is based on a didactical analysis in three parts: Is-Shall-Do. In a first step, the
Novy, Andreas
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Extractive Reserves: Building Natural Assets in the Brazilian Amazon [PDF]
In the Amazon rainforest, Brazil's rubber tappers were the first social group to challenge the predatory development model that is threatening ecological disaster there.
Anthony Hall
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The Attack Against Mamá Maquín and Guatemala’s “Eternal Spring” [PDF]
2016 will mark 20 years since the signature of the Guatemalan Peace Accords, which brought an end to Guatemala’s 36-year long armed conflict and genocide.
Hartviksen, Julia
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Unearthing women's anti-mining activism in the Andes: Pachamama and the "Mad Old Women" [PDF]
Women play an important role in social activism challenging the expansion of extractive industries across Latin America. In arguing that this involvement has been largely unrecognised, this paper explores Andean Peruvian and Ecuadorian women's accounts ...
Gan, Suyin +4 more
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