The New Extractivism

Author : James Petras,Henry Veltmeyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781780329949

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The New Extractivism by James Petras,Henry Veltmeyer Pdf

In a primary commodities boom spurred on by the rise of China, countries the world over are turning to the extraction of natural resources and the export of primary commodities as an antidote to the global recession. The New Extractivism addresses a fundamental dilemma faced by these governments: to pursue, or not, a development strategy based on resource extraction in the face of immense social and environmental costs, not to mention mass resistance from the people negatively affected by it. With fresh insight and analysis from Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru, this book looks at the political dynamics of capitalist development in a region where the neoliberal model is collapsing under the weight of a resistance movement lead by peasant farmers and indigenous communities. It calls for us to understand the new extractivism not as a viable development model for the post-neoliberal world, but as the dangerous emergence of a new form of imperialism.

Author : Maristella Svampa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108707121

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Neo-extractivism in Latin America by Maristella Svampa Pdf

This Element analyses the political dynamics of neo-extractivism in Latin America. It discusses the critical concepts of neo-extractivism and the commodity consensus and the various phases of socio-environmental conflict, proposing an eco-territorial approach that uncovers the escalation of extractive violence. It also presents horizontal concepts and debates theories that explore the language of Latin American socio-environmental movements, such as Buen Vivir and Derechos de la Naturaleza. In concluding, it proposes an explanation for the end of the progressive era, analyzing its ambiguities and limitations in the dawn of a new political cycle marked by the strengthening of the political rights.

Author : Thea Riofrancos
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1478007966

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Resource Radicals by Thea Riofrancos Pdf

In 2007, the left came to power in Ecuador. In the years that followed, the “twenty-first-century socialist” government and a coalition of grassroots activists came to blows over the extraction of natural resources. Each side declared the other a perversion of leftism and the principles of socioeconomic equality, popular empowerment, and anti-imperialism. In Resource Radicals, Thea Riofrancos unpacks the conflict between these two leftisms: on the one hand, the administration's resource nationalism and focus on economic development; and on the other, the anti-extractivism of grassroots activists who condemned the government's disregard for nature and indigenous communities. In this archival and ethnographic study, Riofrancos expands the study of resource politics by decentering state resource policy and locating it in a field of political struggle populated by actors with conflicting visions of resource extraction. She demonstrates how Ecuador's commodity-dependent economy and history of indigenous uprisings offer a unique opportunity to understand development, democracy, and the ecological foundations of global capitalism.

Author : Ben M. Mckay
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1773632531

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The Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism by Ben M. Mckay Pdf

Using the neo-extractivist model, The Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism analyzes how the Bolivian countryside is transformed by the development and expansion of the soy complex and reveals the extractive dynamics of capitalist industrial agriculture.

Author : Judith Shapiro,John-Andrew McNeish
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000391640

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Our Extractive Age by Judith Shapiro,John-Andrew McNeish Pdf

Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life. Chronicling the increasing rates of brutal suppression of local environmental and labor activists in rural and urban sites of extraction, this volume also foregrounds related violence in areas we might not expect, such as infrastructural developments, protected areas for nature conservation, and even geoengineering in the name of carbon mitigation. Contributors argue that extractive violence is not an accident or side effect, but rather a core logic of the 21st Century planetary experience. Acknowledgement is made not only of the visible violence involved in the securitization of extractive enclaves, but also of the symbolic and structural violence that the governance, economics, and governmentality of extraction have produced. Extractive violence is shown not only to be a spectacular event, but an extended dynamic that can be silent, invisible, and gradual. The volume also recognizes that much of the new violence of extraction has become cloaked in the discourse of "green development," "green building," and efforts to mitigate the planetary environmental crisis through totalizing technologies. Ironically, green technologies and other contemporary efforts to tackle environmental ills often themselves depend on the continuance of social exploitation and the contaminating practices of non-renewable extraction. But as this volume shows, resistance is also as multi-scalar and heterogeneous as the violence it inspires. The book is essential reading for activists and for students and scholars of environmental politics, natural resource management, political ecology, sustainable development, and globalization.

Author : Eduardo Gudynas
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1788530632

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Extractivisms by Eduardo Gudynas Pdf

Open-pit mining, oil extraction, and the spread of monocultures (all extractivisms), are degrading and overwhelming the Global South at a shocking rate, particularly in Latin America. This book is an introduction to the issues raised by extractivisms, covering including economic, political, sociological and environmental issues.

Author : Teresa Kramarz,Donald Kingsbury
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030709631

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Populist Moments and Extractivist States in Venezuela and Ecuador by Teresa Kramarz,Donald Kingsbury Pdf

This book addresses the intersection of extractivism, populism, and accountability. Although populist politics are often portrayed as a driver of poor environmental governance, Populist Moments and Extractivist States identifies it as an intervening variable at best – one that emerges in response to the accountability deficits of extractive states. Case studies in Venezuela – for many, the prototypical petrostate – and Ecuador – which exchanged agribusiness dependency for oil decades later – illustrate how extractive states are oriented by a colonial logic of export and service. This logic regulates state-society-nature relationships and circumscribes avenues for local stakeholders to hold public officials and extractive industries to account for environmental and human harms. Populist moments of the early 21st century across Latin America responded to these conditions, promising more equitable and sustainable futures. However, rather than reversing the technocracy, verticalism, and exclusion of the recent past, populist moments often intensified and legitimated them in the drive to maximize and distribute resource rents. The result has been cyclical, as populist moments of hope and rupture fall prey to the extractivist states they tried, and failed, to replace.

Author : Anna J. Willow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429883897

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Understanding ExtrACTIVISM by Anna J. Willow Pdf

Understanding ExtrACTIVISM surveys how contemporary resource extractive industry works and considers the responses it inspires in local citizens and activists. Chapters cover a range of extractive industries operating around the world, including logging, hydroelectric dams, mining, and oil and natural gas extraction. Taking an activist anthropological stance, Anna Willow examines how culture and power inform recent and ongoing disputes between projects’ proponents and opponents, beneficiaries and victims. Through a series of engaging case studies, she argues that diverse contemporary natural resource conflicts are underlain by a culturally constituted ‘extractivist’ mind-set and embedded in global patterns of political inequity. Offering a synthesizing framework for making sense of complex interconnections among environmental, social, and political dimensions of natural resource disputes, Willow reflects on why extractivism exists, why it matters, and what we might be able to do about it. The book is valuable reading for students and researchers in the environmental social sciences as well as for activists and practitioners.

Author : Malayna Raftopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351135610

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Social-Environmental Conflicts, Extractivism and Human Rights in Latin America by Malayna Raftopoulos Pdf

This book focuses on the issues of global environmental injustice and human rights violations and explores the scope and limits of the potential of human rights to influence environmental justice. It offers a multidisciplinary perspective on contemporary development discussions, analysing some of the crucial challenges, contradictions and promises within current environmental and human rights practices in Latin America. The contributors examine how the extraction and exploitation of natural resources and the further commodification of nature have affected local communities in the region and how these policies have impacted on the promotion and protection of human rights as communities struggle to defend their rights and territories. The book analyses the emergence of transnational activism in the context of collective action organised around socio-environmental conflicts, the infringement of basic human rights and the emergence of alternative and sometimes conflicting development models. Furthermore, it critically discusses why governments are often willing to override their commitments to sustainability and human rights to promote their development agenda. The chapters originally published as a special issue in The International Journal of Human Rights.

Author : Steve Ellner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538141571

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Latin American Extractivism by Steve Ellner Pdf

This cutting-edge book presents a broad picture of global capitalism and extractivism in contemporary Latin America. Leading scholars examine the cultural patterns involving gender, ethnicity, and class that lie behind protests in opposition to extractivist projects and the contrast in responses from state actors to those movements.

Author : James Petras,Henry Veltmeyer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004268869

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Extractive Imperialism in the Americas by James Petras,Henry Veltmeyer Pdf

Recent changes in the global economy, which include a growing demand for energy and natural resources such as industrial minerals and agro-food products, have brought about a massive devastating pillage of resources in the developing world by multinational corporations as well as states with energy and food security concerns—and concerns about a system (global capitalism) in the throes of a global crisis. These developments have also brought about a major change in the form taken by imperialism (actions taken by the state to advance the interests of the dominant capitalist class). This book explores the changing face of US imperialism in the regional context of the Americas, a major stage in the unfolding drama of a system in crisis.

Author : Kalowatie Deonandan,Michael L. Dougherty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317414506

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Mining in Latin America by Kalowatie Deonandan,Michael L. Dougherty Pdf

The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion and intensification of mineral resource exploitation and development across the global south, especially in Latin America. This shift has brought mining more visibly into global public debates and spurred a great deal of controversy and conflict. This volume assembles new scholarship that provides critical perspectives on these issues. The book marshals original, empirical work from leading social scientists in a variety of disciplines to address a range of questions about the practices of mining companies on the ground, the impacts of mining on host communities, and the responses to mining from communities, civil society and states. The book further explores the global and international causes, consequences and innovations of this new era of mining activity in Latin America. Key issues include the role of Canadian mining companies and their investment in the region, and, to a lesser extent, the role of Chinese mining capital. Several chapters take a regional perspective, while others are based on empirical data from specific countries including Bolivia, Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala and Peru.

Author : Ben M. McKay,Alberto Alonso-Fradejas,Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000390520

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Agrarian Extractivism in Latin America by Ben M. McKay,Alberto Alonso-Fradejas,Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete Pdf

Amid the growing calls for a turn towards sustainable agriculture, this book puts forth and discusses the concept of agrarian extractivism to help us identify and expose the predatory extractivist features of dominant agricultural development models. The concept goes beyond the more apparent features of monocultures and raw material exports to examine the inherent logic and underlying workings of a model based on the appropriation of an ever-growing range of commodified and non-commodified human and non-human nature in an extractivist fashion. Such a process erodes the autonomy of resourcedependent working people, dispossesses the rural poor, exhausts and expropriates nature, and concentrates value in a few hands as a result of the unquenchable drive for profit by big business. In many instances, such extractivist dynamics are subsidized and/or directly supported by the state, while also dependent on the unpaid, productive, and reproductive labour of women, children, and elders, exacerbating unequal class, gender, and generational relations. Rather than a one-size-fits-all definition of agrarian extractivism, this collection points to the diversity of extractivist features of corporate-led, external-input-dependent plantation agriculture across distinct socio-ecological formations in Latin America. This timely challenge to the destructive dominant models of agricultural development will interest scholars, activists, researchers, and students from across the fields of critical development studies, rural studies, environmental and sustainability studies, and Latin American studies, among others.

Author : Dennis C. Canterbury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351127325

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Neoextractivism and Capitalist Development by Dennis C. Canterbury Pdf

The large-scale extraction of natural resources for sale in capitalist markets is not a new phenomenon, but in recent years global demand for resources has increased, leading to greater attention to the role of resource extraction in the development of the exporting countries. The term neoextractivism was coined to refer to the complex of state-private sector policies intended to utilize the income from natural resources sales for development objectives and for improving the lives of a country's citizens. However, this book argues that neoextractivism is merely another conduit for capitalist development, reinforcing the position of elites, with few benefits for working people. With particular reference to the role of neoextractivism within Latin America and the Caribbean, using Guyana as a case study, the book aims to provide readers with the tools they need to critically analyze neoextractivism as a development model, identifying alternative paths for improving the human condition. This book will be of interest to academics and students in the fields of international development, political economy, sociology, and globalization, as well as to policymakers and political activists engaged in social movements in the natural resources sector.

Author : Miriam Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Latin America
ISBN : 907056324X

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Beyond Development by Miriam Lang Pdf