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Skills for sustainable development: transforming vocational education and training beyond 2015 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
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 ...
Acosta   +62 more
core   +2 more sources

Energy transition and “green” extractivism around the lithium industry. New socio-territorial conflict in northern Argentina

open access: yesSalud, Ciencia y Tecnología - Serie de Conferencias, 2023
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 ...
openaire   +1 more source

Roadblock Geographies: A Typology of Extraction, Circulation, and Authority in Conflict

open access: yesArea, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Feminist critique of bioeconomies: paradigm struggles toward a caring economy

open access: yesSustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy
This article addresses the tension between green productivism and reproductivity of human and non-human life from a critical feminist perspective.
Christa Wichterich
doaj   +1 more source

Can You See Us Now? Negotiating Indigenous Citizenship at a Road Blockade in Argentinean Chaco

open access: yesArea, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Petropower in Law‐Enforcement Advertising at Super Bowl LIX

open access: yesThe Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 2, June 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

A Good Life for all - A European development model [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
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
core  

Extractive Reserves: Building Natural Assets in the Brazilian Amazon [PDF]

open access: yes
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
core  

The Attack Against Mamá Maquín and Guatemala’s “Eternal Spring” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
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
core  

Unearthing women's anti-mining activism in the Andes: Pachamama and the "Mad Old Women" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
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
core   +1 more source

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