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Towards a new dialectics of dependency theory [PDF]
AlternautasDependency theory is arguably the most important theoretical tradition to emerge from Latin America. Functioning as a vital source of counter-representation and contestation, it challenged the prevailing developmental orthodoxies of the time. During its
Chris Hesketh
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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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The Sounds of Melting Mountains: A Sound Cartography of Mining in Minas Gerais, Brazil
Pulse, 2022 This essay addresses the sounds of Brazilian mining, focusing on the State of Minas Gerais, where two recent catastrophes occurred as a result of the collapse of mining tailings dams: Mariana and Brumadinho.
Frederico Pessoa
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Paradigma Pachamama. Patrimonialización, extractivismos y lavado verde en Jujuy, Argentina
Corpus: Archivos Virtuales de la Alteridad Americana, 2022 This article analyzes the process of patrimonialization of the Pachamama in Jujuy, between the mid-1990s and the present. Through the analysis of laws, journalistic documents and ethnographic observations, it is shown how the Pachamama was characterized ...
Guillermina Espósito
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Mining in comparative perspective : trends, transformations and theories [PDF]
, 2019 This article offers a brief introduction to a special issue based on a selection of papers originally presented at an international mining conference in Ghent (Belgium) in December 2017.
Cuvelier, Jeroen
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Topsy-Turvy Neo-Developmentalism: An Analysis of the Current Brazilian Model of Development
Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2015 The paper discusses the similarities and differences between neo-developmentalism and neo-extractivism. The evaluation compares Brazil with nine other Latin American countries and is based on a framework that considers both economic policies and their ...
Bruno Milanez, Rodrigo S. P. Santos
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Promoting Renewable Energy or Environmental Problems? Environmental Politics and Sustainability in Sino-Brazilian Relations [PDF]
, 2016 China is now Brazil’s largest trade and investment partner, with Brazil’s exports dominated by primary products such as iron ore, soy and crude oil. China and Brazil have also become major players in international environmental and debates as emerging ...
Raftopoulos, M, Riethof, M
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A “Networked” Research Agenda [PDF]
, 2018 Research on the conjunction of business elites and sustainable development fascinates practitioners and international organizations but faces methodological and data collection challenges within academia.
Cárdenas, Julián
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Revue Internationale de Politique de Développement, 2017 This chapter studies the underlying tensions between ‘extractivism’, decentralisation processes, the recognition of ethnic rights, and the protection of the environment in four countries in Latin America.
Darío Indalecio Restrepo Botero +1 more
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Fighting Global Neo-Extractivism
, 2022 Fighting Global Neo-Extractivism: Fossil-Free Social Movements in South Africa analyses social struggles over damaging new fossil-fuel projects in the Global South with a focus on South Africa, Africa’s biggest fossil fuel emitter. Fossil-fuel extraction in South Africa has reached a new accelerated phase in which the fossil-fuel frontier is moving ...
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