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Neo-Extractivism in Latin America – one side of a new phase of global capitalist dynamics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The aim of this text is to make sense of the emerging political-institutional, territorial, and socio-ecological dynamics and contradictions of neo-extractivism in Latin America in the context of global capitalist development.
Kristina Dietz   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Carbon Populism and Representative Politics: On Why Fossil Fuel Firms Speaking for ‘The People’ Is a Bad Idea

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite growing recognition that countries around the world must transition to a low‐carbon economy, global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. One way that decarbonization has been obstructed, we argue, is by fossil fuel firms intentionally conflating their agenda with ‘the people’, evoking notions of national identity, security and ...
Daniel Nyberg   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I explore the connections between the medicalization of childbirth and environmental devastation through Guarani‐Mbyá understandings of life and the living. I argue that the cuts made to Guarani‐Mbyá women's vaginas (episiotomies) in Brazilian hospitals are experienced and situated on the same cosmopolitical level as the cuts ...
Maria Paula Prates
wiley   +1 more source

Price-making in provisioning systems and social-ecological transformation? The cases of the electric vehicle metals copper, cobalt, and lithium

open access: yesSustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy
Research and debates around mineral extraction in the context of social-ecological transformation have to date dedicated limited attention to price-making.
Cornelia Staritz   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

(Re)Turning to Black feminist consciousness: Deconstructing the politics of reproductive racism in Britain

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Using ethnographic vignettes from my doctoral research, this article contextualizes and analyses Britain's Black maternal health crisis— a crisis of reproductive racism— through a Black feminist lens. The inequities Black mothers face has a strong Black (and) feminist history of being analyzed in relation to the politics of anti‐Black racism ...
Princess Banda
wiley   +1 more source

L’estrattivismo come crimine ambientale (neo)coloniale. Prospettive teoriche e metodologiche a partire dalla Southern green criminology

open access: yesCambio
The paper examines the phenomenon of extractivism from a theoretical-critical perspective, highlighting its environmental impacts, the forms of violence associated with it, and the neocolonial dynamics of domination and exploitation, with a particular ...
Thomas Aureliani
doaj  

Narratives from the Pineapple Republic. On national self-understanding and sustainability paradoxes in Costa Rica as detected in Adrián Jiménez Brais’ play PIÑA

open access: yesRevista Académica Arjé
The following article analyzes the play PIÑA (2023) by Costa Rican author Adrían Jiménez Brais. Based on an understanding of literature as a repository of social knowledge, where urgent narratives, discourses and issues are made visible and negotiated ...
Susanne Schlünder
doaj   +1 more source

New extractivism and failed development in Azerbaijan

open access: yes, 2021
New extractivism and failed development in ...
G Bashirov (14447502)
core  

How Alliances Build Innovation Capabilities but Narrow Their Redeployment in Amazonian Community‐Based Enterprises

open access: yesR&D Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on strategic alliances often treats supplier capability development as an outcome, but rarely asks which capabilities are built or what they can be used for. We address this through an embedded single‐case study of a lead‐firm‐orchestrated network in the Brazilian Amazon, comprising six community‐based enterprises (CBEs) supplying ...
Renata Elaje Azevedo da Mota Carmona Chaves   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Making Mining Good: Tracing the semiotics of justification in mineral exploration and mining

open access: yesValuation Studies
What does it mean for a business or industry to be and do good? And who can count themselves within the good economy? This article investigates the justification of goodness in mineral exploration and mining and uses the entwinement between value ...
Tobias Olofsson
doaj   +1 more source

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