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Vernacular Sustainabilities—Multispecies Stories and Life-Death Entanglements of the Sertão Nordestino in Contemporary Brazilian Futurisms (The Film Bacurau and the Sertãopunk Comic Cangaço Overdrive)

Humanities, 2022
In northeastern Brazil, a region with extreme droughts and the smallest rainfall index in the whole country, water sources are crucial to ensure the survival of humans and nonhumans in this semi-arid region, known as sertão nordestino.
Azucena Castro
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Neo-extractivism, mining, and vulnerability of indigenous peoples as an expression of persistent colonialism in Brazil

Saúde em Debate, 2022
ABSTRACT This essay argues that the most recent threats of vulnerability against indigenous peoples, intensified in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, reflect a persistent colonialism. This is updated in the context of Brazil’s semi-peripheral insertion into the capitalist, neoliberal, and globalized world-system as an exporter of commodities ...
Marcelo Firpo de Souza Porto, Diogo Rocha   +1 more
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Quando o neoextrativismo chega aos corpos e territórios: agronegócio, processos de vulnerabilização e colonialidade

Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, 2021
Agribusiness, a hegemonic productive model in Brazil and in several countries of the Global South, has expanded in recent decades, linked to numerous impacts on human health and the environment. In Chapada do Apodi (CE), communities have been cornered by
Ada Cristina Pontes Aguiar, Raquel Maria Rigotto   +1 more
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Development and Environment in Latin America: The Struggle over a Hegemonic Discourse

Diálogos, 2020
During the last decades of the twentieth century, increasing social environmental awareness added up to the gradual penetration of environmental thinking into the Latin American states’ developmental policymaking.
Pedro Alarcon
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Study review and conceptual approach: Urban extractivism (2014 – 2020)

Cuadernos de Administración
The article presents a review of studies conducted between 2014 and 2020 and a reference framework on urban extractivism, linking this concept to theories of classical authors in urban sociology and geography, as well as to contemporary scholars.
Guillermo León Moreno Soto
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The Struggle of Indigenous Peoples to Maintain Their Spirituality in Latin America: Freedom of and from Religion(s), and Other Threats

Religions, 2021
This article argues that the (Western-oriented) right to religion has been proven inadequate in protecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights. It recognizes that this is partly because of the distinctive characteristics of Indigenous religions, which differ from
Alexandra Tomaselli, Alexandra Xanthaki
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Prohibited Plants: Converging Sustainability Transitions and Local Development in ‘Left‐Behind Places’

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between sustainability transitions and local development through the case of Colombia's medicinal cannabis industry. It highlights how neglecting place‐specific needs and development expectations can hinder equitable transitions and reinforce existing socio‐economic disparities.
Diana Morales, Mónica Ramos‐Mejía
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The political ecologies of "green" extractivism(s): An introduction 

Journal of Political Ecology
What is so-called 'green' extractivism and where did it come from? The introduction to this Special Section examines the origins and implications of the concept, linking it to a long history of exploitation, dispossession and (neo)colonialism under the ...
Alexander Dunlap, Judith Verweijen, Carlos Tornel   +2 more
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Neo-Esktraktivisme Tambang Timah di Pulau Bangka

Indonesian Journal of Religion and Society, 2020
Tin mining on Bangka Island was monopolized by large companies since the colonial period until twenty years ago. Furthermore, illegal tin miners or unconventional mines (tambang inkonvensional or TI) are the main actors in tin exploitation.
Agung Nugraha, Semiarto A. Purwanto
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FROM NY‐LON TO SILK? Shifting Centres of Attention in the World's Urban Fabric

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This Interventions essay explores Silk Road urbanism's emergence as a rival to New York and London (NY‐LON) for global centre stage in Anglophone urban and regional studies. Through China's Belt and Road Initiative, more attention is being given to urban formations and associated new centralities beyond North Atlantic global/world cities ...
Tim Bunnell, Han Cheng, Wenn Er Tan
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