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The Political Economy of Universal Pensions in Bolivia [PDF]
, 2017 While non-contributory pensions are spreading around the globe, Bolivia is still the only Latin American country with a universal old-age pension scheme.
Müller, Katharina
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Cybergeo, 2019 The third largest Brazilian metropolis - Belo Horizonte - accommodates local communities within its peri-urban area surrounding the Serra do Gandarela. These communities experience tensions, risk, and conflicts due to the expansion of mining activities ...
Claudia Marcela Orduz Rojas +2 more
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Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et Société, 2023 AbstractMining has been at the forefront of coloniality for hundreds of years in Brazil, representing one of the main threats to the integrity and health of Indigenous lands. The 1988 Brazilian Constitution recognized Indigenous peoples’ rights to the lands they occupy, and their natural resources, according to their traditions, uses, beliefs, and ...
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Possibilities and limits of the growth and social economic development in the countries of Europe, Asia Africa and Latin America [PDF]
, 2017 From the perspective of the curse of resource theories and neo-extractivism and its theoretical background, the objective of the article is to highlight these referents with the realities of some countries interviewed in studies directed by researchers ...
Bonilla Olano, Esperanza Virginia
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, 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.
Finkeldey, Jasper
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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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El neoextractivismo y el neodesarrollismo en los contextos latinoamericano y colombiano
Revista Controversia, 2017 El presente artículo analiza la relación que existe entre en el desarrollo convencional impulsado por los gobiernos latinoamericanos de derecha y el extractivismo convencional como su base económica fundamental, y las diferencias que presenta ese modelo ...
Freddy Freddy Díaz
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IdeAs, 2022 From the oil pipelines that scar the Northwest Territories transforming the lives of First Nation communities to the forest fires that rampage across the Gran Chaco due to soy deforestation, the devastating impact of neoextractivism is writ large in the ...
James Scorer
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The Meritorious ‘Other’: The Interconnection of Merit and Race in EU Migration and Asylum Law
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Adopting a law‐in‐context approach, this article suggests that merit‐based migrant selection in the European Union (EU) is implicitly shaped by racial dynamics. With a focus on EU law and more specifically on cases from the Netherlands and Germany, it argues that the growing emphasis on merit enables a limited number of ‘racialised others’ to ...
Sarah Ganty +3 more
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Chapter 7 Fighting Fossil Fuels Around the World [PDF]
, 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.
Finkeldey, Jasper
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