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Normalising corporate counterinsurgency: engineering consent, managing resistance and greening destruction around the Hambach coal mine and beyond [PDF]

, 2017
The German Rhineland is home to the world's largest opencast lignite coal mine and human-made hole e the Hambach mine. Over the last seven years, RWE, the mine operator, has faced an increase in militant resistance, culminating in the occupation of the ...
Brock, Andrea, Dunlap, Alexander
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THE “GREENING”, HIGHER STAGE OF EXTRACTIVISM

, 2022
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.
openaire   +1 more source

Translating the field

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Ethnographers observe and engage the field. They live with, play with, eat with, dance with, feel with, and, increasingly, write or film with their interlocutors. But most of all, they listen and converse. As they enter the lingual ecology of their hosts through a range of practices of communication, ethnographers begin a multi‐faceted journey
Borut Telban, Ute Eickelkamp
wiley   +1 more source

"Monstrous transformer" : petrofiction and world literature [PDF]

, 2017
This article presents a comparative study of two significant novels of oil-encounter modernization, George Mackay Brown’s Greenvoe (1972) and Abdelrahman Munif’s Cities of Salt (1984), in order to argue that such petrofiction both demands and enables ...
Macdonald, Graeme
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Green Refrontierisation: Critical Cartographies of the Hydrogen Rush in Africa

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This article provides a critical cartographic analysis of the green hydrogen (GH2) maps present within the reports of European states, lobby groups and investment bodies to examine the role of geographical knowledge in the production of low‐carbon energy frontiers. It identifies three spatio‐political strategies present within these maps
William Monteith
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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Family farmers and major retail chains in the Brazilian organic sector: assessing new development pathways. A case study in a peri-urban district of Sao Paulo [PDF]

, 2009
The expansion of the organic sector in Brazil is seen as a leverage for the social emancipation of the small family farmers. Next to the traditional alternatives circuits of organic food and farming, new powerful capitalistic actors, such as supermarket ...
Blanc, Julien
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Navigating Tensions and Contradictions: The Everyday Negotiation of Militant Research

Area, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract This paper explores the tensions and contradictions generated when conducting militant research from within academia. More specifically, it focuses on how they play out and shape militant research on an everyday basis, and how they are constantly negotiated by militant researchers and mediated by their diverse positionalities.
Sergio Ruiz Cayuela
wiley   +1 more source

Narratives of sustainable work in mining-affected communities: Gleaning a decolonial concept

International Labour Review
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
doaj   +2 more sources

Extrativismo vegetal ou plantio: qual a opção para a Amazônia?

Estudos Avançados, 2012
O crescimento do mercado de produtos extrativos tem conduzido a domesticação de plantas e a descoberta de substitutos sintéticos. Outras variáveis como o crescimento populacional, a mudança nos preços relativos, a baixa produtividade da terra e da mão de
Alfredo Kingo Oyama Homma
doaj   +1 more source