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Extractivism and Neo-extractivism

, 2022
Neo-extractivism is an analytical category born in Latin America that has a great descriptive and explanatory power, as well as a denunciatory character and a strong mobilizing power.
Svampa, Maristella Noemi
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Green Extractivism in Chile: the case of lithium mining in the Salar de Atacama [PDF]

, 2023
“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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Monsters of finance

American Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract An anthropology of horror can serve as a vernacular critique of financial speculation. Drawing on fieldwork in San Pedro, Paraguay, I track horror across three registers: pombero tricksters; plata yvyguy (buried money) as a founding myth of postwar finance; and obligations binding sesame farmers to monsters, patrones, and creditors.
Caroline E. Schuster
wiley   +1 more source

The Legal–Security Paradox of Green Extractivism: A Green Criminology Inquiry into Corporate Roles and Counterterrorism Implications in Indonesia

Indonesian Journal of Counter Terrorism and National Security
This article critically examines the structural incapacity of Indonesian law to anticipate and regulate the transformation of natural resource exploitation into vectors of national security risk.
Venessa Huwae, Sudrajat Tedi , Tri Lisiani Prihatinah, Duhita Pandya, Dede Indraswara   +4 more
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The coloniality of green transformation: Decarbonisation and extractivism in South America

The Sociological Review
The ‘green transformation’, with its focus on renewable energies and decarbonisation, has been criticised for intensifying resource exploitation in the Global South. In this article, we argue that a Latin American decolonial perspective is necessary to understand the historical continuities that allow these ecological modernisation projects to ...
Maria Backhouse, Jakob Graf, Anna Landherr   +2 more
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The obsolescence of protected area categories in a polycrisis world

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Current global conservation models face significant limitations in addressing the global polycrisis, and the constraints of the International Union for Conservation of Nature protected area (PA) classification system are part of the issue. The principles of the new conservation paradigm—governance, equity, and interculturality—are not viable ...
Pamela Esther Degele
wiley   +1 more source

Revising resilience: The 17 Principles of environmental justice and their 'Indigenous Overlay'

Journal of Political Ecology
Resilience is widely celebrated worldwide as a goal for ecosystems and human communities, and yet often lacks a critical, historically specific analysis of equity, specifically from Indigenous and rural standpoints.
Dana E. Powell, Donna F. Chavis
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Demystifying Decoloniality: Epistemic Rupture and Material Reality

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Decolonial thought has become increasingly influential across the social sciences, foregrounding coloniality, epistemic injustice, ontological difference and pluriversality as alternatives to Western universalism. This Introduction to the Forum Debate ‘Debating Decolonial Thought’ critically examines the ‘decolonial turn’ in development ...
Sreerekha Sathi
wiley   +1 more source

Conservación neoliberal de la naturaleza en la Patagonia chilena: explorando nuevas modalidades ecoextractivistas y tensiones hidrosociales

Revista de Estudios Sociales
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, Robinson Torres Salinas, Alejandro Salazar-Burrows, Fabien Bourlon   +3 more
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Unreachable, Inescapable: Sustainable Development as Normative Camouflage in EU–MERCOSUR Trade

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source