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Unreachable, Inescapable: Sustainable Development as Normative Camouflage in EU–MERCOSUR Trade
Abstract This article examines how sustainable development functions as a mechanism of stabilising asymmetry in North–South trade governance, using the European Union (EU)–Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) agreement as a case study. Whilst sustainability is often framed as a normative good or institutional advance, the article shows instead how it ...
Asha Herten‐Crabb
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THE “GREENING”, HIGHER STAGE OF EXTRACTIVISM
Centered in ecosocialist and ecofeminist perspectives, this paper examines the negative impact of extractivism as an economic activity that removes a huge number of natural resources and evaluates how global capital’s ecological management, which I call “greening,” has developed in Central and South America.
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Green Extractivism in Chile: the case of lithium mining in the Salar de Atacama [PDF]
“Green extractivism” refers to the way in which decarbonisation and the transition to green energy as part of the sustainable development policies of the Global North have increased the commodification of nature and expanded the extraction of minerals.
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The Meritorious ‘Other’: The Interconnection of Merit and Race in EU Migration and Asylum Law
Abstract Adopting a law‐in‐context approach, this article suggests that merit‐based migrant selection in the European Union (EU) is implicitly shaped by racial dynamics. With a focus on EU law and more specifically on cases from the Netherlands and Germany, it argues that the growing emphasis on merit enables a limited number of ‘racialised others’ to ...
Sarah Ganty +3 more
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Chilean Patagonia, a historically remote region known for its vast natural landscapes of global ecological importance, has a rich environmental history of resistance, epitomized by the monumental Patagonia Without Dams movement, which fiercely opposed ...
Esteban Ortiz Robles +3 more
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Local Elites in Chile's Pisco Valley: Dispossession, Legal Mobilisation and Intertwined Citizenship
ABSTRACT In countries in the Global South, citizenship is often closely tied to access to water and land ownership. In Latin America, the literature has primarily explored social mobilisation and identity reconfiguration in response to development‐driven processes of land and water dispossession affecting peasants, rural and Indigenous communities ...
Chloé Nicolas‐Artero
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Narratives of sustainable work in mining-affected communities: Gleaning a decolonial concept
Conceptions of sustainable work advanced by United Nations bodies, including the ILO, promote the pursuit of green and inclusive economies. Through a decolonial-inspired narrative analysis of textual and audiovisual sources relating to mining-affected ...
Ania ZBYSZEWSKA, Flavia MAXIMO
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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
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In this chapter we are rethinking sustainability in a non-extractivist perspective. Whilst notions of sustainable development and green growth tend to reproduce dynamics of extractivism and mastery in human-nature relations, we analyze how practices ...
Umantseva, Anna, Egmose, Jonas
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Background: Indonesia, home to some of the world’s largest nickel reserves, has emerged as a central hub in the global electric vehicle supply chain under initiatives of nickel downstreaming.
Fatimatuzzahro
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