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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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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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Contested Relations Between Resource Extraction and Alternatives to Development : The Case of Lithium Production in Bolivia [PDF]

, 2017
Tämä Pro Gradu-tutkielma tarkastelee ekstraktivismin ja Bolivialaisen vaihtoehdon kehitykselle välistä suhdetta Bolivian Salar de Uyunissa tapahtuvan litiumtuotannon kautta.
Komi, Sanna
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Anthropologist, heal thyself: Toward an anthropology of healing through relational interbeing

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract I call for an anthropology that confronts its own woundedness. Anthropologists often bear witness to suffering but rarely examine how our own grief, trauma, and institutional distress shape the affective tone of our work. Drawing on fieldwork with Runa (Quechua) women affected by forced sterilization in Peru and guided by my collaborator and ...
Lucía Isabel Stavig
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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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The Role of Global Political Economy in Community‐Based Adaptation to Climate Change—Practitioners' Experience and Opinions

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Community‐based adaptation scholars and practitioners acknowledge that power asymmetries pose significant barriers to project impact. Nevertheless, there is little research on the role of the global political economy as the root cause of vulnerability.
Tom Selje, Alexandra Klepp, Boris Heinz
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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
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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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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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