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The Politics of Disaster Risk Governance and Neo-Extractivism in Latin America [PDF]
Politics and Governance, 2020 Latin America is one of the regions facing many disasters with some of the worse impacts. The current governance model has not proven successful in disaster risk reduction.
Andrés Pereira Covarrubias +1 more
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Introduction to the Special Issue on “Water and (neo)Extractivism in Latin America” Editorial
Alternautas, 2022 We are happy to share with our readers a series of seven articles, to be published between mid-October and mid-December, from diverse disciplinary perspectives – including anthropology, archaeology, political science, development studies and critical ...
Emilie Dupuits, Maria Mancilla Garcia
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Neo-Extractivism in Latin America – one side of a new phase of global capitalist dynamics [PDF]
Ciencia Política, 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.
Ulrich Brand +2 more
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Latin American mining in the 21st century: from neo-liberalism to neo-extractivism
Ingeniería Investigación y Desarrollo, 2013 In Latin America has unleashed an intense controversy about the depletion of natural resources by the application of an extractive model, the unequal powers between the transnational mining industries and the consumer countries, and the impacts that this
Humberto Ruiz Gómez
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Sustainability, 2023 The purpose of this paper is to analyze the negative impact of neo-extractivism to boost the mining industry and the components that prevent the formalization of ASM as a model of rural economic development in Vetas, California, Suratá, and Matanza, municipalities adjacent to the Santurbán moorland (Colombia).
Ruth Zárate Rueda +2 more
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Neo-extractivism, the Bolivian state, and indigenous peasant women’s struggles for water in the Altiplano [PDF]
Human Geography(United Kingdom), 2020 In pursuing progress and economic growth, the Bolivian state led by President Evo Morales replicated the colonial division of labor through a development model known as neo-extractivism. Rooted tensions between indigenous communities and the state emerged due to the latter’s zealous economic bond with the extractivist sector.
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Sociological Research OnlineThe triumph of neoliberal globalisation has been presented as the end of history, with no viable alternatives available. In Latin America, however, the structural adjustment programmes imposed by international financial institutions and the increased role of transnational corporations were resisted by social and popular movements ...
Eija Ranta
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Alternautas, 2023 The articles in this issue provide a variety of perspectives on recent transformations in the Amazon. The first set of articles focuses on the relationship between capital, the state, and indigenous communities and movements.
María del Pilar Ramirez Gröbli
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Water Policy, 2022 The depletion of freshwater sources by indiscriminate industrial actions is one of the direct causes of the current water crisis. One of the emblematic cases of this problem is the Atacama Desert, a unique hyper-arid zone in which an extensive copper ...
Raphael Cantillana +1 more
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Ambiente & Sociedade, 2021 In understanding contemporary Latin America, a critical post-developmental approach is particularly relevant. This approach closely links modernity to coloniality and its debates are permeated by the concept of colonized nature and by trenchant critiques
Bruna Cigaran da Rocha +5 more
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