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Green Masquerade: Neo-liberalism, Extractive Renewable Energy Transitions, and the ‘Good’ Anthropocene in South Africa

open access: yesRevue Internationale de Politique de Développement, 2023
This chapter examines the ‘green’ energy developments apparent in the South African government’s energy policy and renewable energy programme. In 2011, the South African government introduced the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement ...
Michelle Pressend
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Reintegrating economy, society, and environment for cooperative futures: Polanyi, Marx, and food sovereignty [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper attempts to ‘put in their place’ (Sum and Jessop 2013) some key issues that frame the question of ‘the more-than-economic dimensions of co-operation’.
Tilzey, Mark
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Criminalizar é governar: uma proposta teórica para a compreensão da criminalização dos movimentos sociais do campo no Brasil

open access: yesColombia Internacional, 2018
The aim of this study is to provide possibilities for a theoretical interpretation of the foundations of the criminalization of rural social movements in Brazil.
Pedro Vasconcelos Rocha   +1 more
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Development and Environment in Latin America: The Struggle over a Hegemonic Discourse

open access: yesDiálogos, 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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Birthing extractivism : The role of the state in forestry politics and development in Uruguay [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This study examines the role of states in developing contemporary extractivism based on recent investments and project plans in industrial forestry in Uruguay.
Ehrström-Fuentes, Maria   +1 more
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The imperial rationality within BioTrade: A contribution to the neoextractivist debate

open access: yesAlternautas, 2022
This article addresses a recent debate on neoextractivism in Latin America by presenting ethnographic research on BioTrade in Peru. While biodiversity conservation is usually not associated with extractivist projects, such as open-pit mining or ...
Jonas Köppel
doaj   +1 more source

Fulfilling promises of more substantive democracy? Post-neoliberalism and natural resource governance in South America [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Benefiting from the commodity boom, progressive governments across South America have sought to move away from the neoliberal policies adopted previously by strengthening the role of the state and using revenues from commodity exports to address social ...
Siegel, Karen M.
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From Extractivism to Global Extractivism : The Evolution of an Organizing Concept [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
All the named authors were members of the Helsinki Research Working Group on Global Extractivisms and Alternatives, who jointly constructed this article.
Chagnon, Christopher W.   +10 more
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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)

open access: yesHumanities, 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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An overview of thriving through transformation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The articles published in this special issue come from the blind peer review and refinement of papers presented to the biennial conference of the Australia New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics (ANZSEE) held at the University of New England (UNE ...
Blackwell, Boyd Dirk
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