Global extractivisms and transformative alternatives

Nygren, Anja; Kröger, Markus; Gills, Barry

doi:10.1080/03066150.2022.2069495

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“…Enterprises that are established based on three essential ideas are considered extractivist: the commodification of nature, the declared intention of appropriation and the low degree of in situ transformation (Nygren, Kröger and Gills, 2022). Recent extractivism is extensive, such as open-pit mining, hydrocarbon extraction and monoculture agriculture, whose presence in Latin America generates multiple resistances and conflicts (Gudynas, 2014).…”

Section: Fuelsmentioning

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Energy extractivism and water dispossession by contamination: an essay of fracking in mexican legal order

Jacobo-Marín

2024

Braz. J. Develop.

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The article analyzes the extraction of hydrocarbons through fracking in Mexico. Energy extractivism is discussed as the hegemonic model of production and consumption of fossil fuels and, in particular, as a neoliberal prototype of energy management. The water-energy relationship is examined from a critical perspective, highlighting the granting of water rights for the stimulation of unconventional reservoirs. It is documented that the explicit regulation of fracking intervened in the allocation of hydraulic uses and the order of priority of uses. In any case, these issues sharpen competition for water on lands of collective social property. It is concluded that fracking constitutes a mechanism of water dispossession by contamination.

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Energy extractivism and water dispossession by contamination: an essay of fracking in mexican legal order

Jacobo-Marín

2024

Braz. J. Develop.

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“…A buoyant debate has emerged around the concept of extractivism, inspired by political ecology and agrarian studies scholarship concerned with socio-environmental injustices as not only an effect, but also the very fuel of capitalism. This conceptualization emerged initially through political ecologies of extractive industries, especially in Latin America, and the concept has expanded to extractivist dynamics across different natural resource industries (Acosta, 2013;Engels and Dietz, 2017;Gudynas, 2020;Nygren et al, 2022). Here, I draw on key conceptual insights within this work, especially around the way depletion is central to the production and reproduction of extractive capitalism, and that may help advance an understanding of the construction of artisan mining natures and labor as "cheap".…”

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“…They have largely focused on territorial violence and disputes between largescale mining projects and residents, indigenous and resistance movements opposing these projects, their infringement on conservation areas, and the contested discourses and institutional histories through which these projects have been promoted as "development" (Bebbington and Bury, 2013;Lu et al, 2017;Caretta and Zaragocin, 2020). This research has evolved into a rich scholarship and the concept of "extractivism" has come to refer to the different forms of social and environmental injustices produced through the extraction of natural resources under capitalism (Acosta, 2013;Engels and Dietz, 2017;Dunlap and Jakobsen, 2020;Gudynas, 2020;McKay et al, 2021;Nygren et al, 2022). Within this research artisan mining is often portrayed ambiguously-it is either implicitly considered as part of affected populations from large-scale extractive projects, or as a harbinger of environmental destruction also enrolled in various forms of trafficking and labor exploitation.…”

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Furious depletion—Conceptualizing artisan mining and extractivism through gender, race, and environment

Côte¹

2023

Front. Hum. Dyn.

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A buoyant debate has grown in political ecology and agrarian studies around the concept of extractivism. It shines a light on forms of human and non-human depletion that fuel contemporary capitalism. Within this debate however, artisan mining has been hard to fit in. Artisan mining is a form of small scale mineral extraction that occupies around 45 million people around the world, and sustains the life of many more, especially in the Global South. Much research has looked at this expanding form of livelihood, particularly through the prism of its persistent informality, its labor organization, and its challenges to environmental and labor rights. However, it has not been well-theorized in relations to extractivism, sitting uncomfortably with dominant categories such as “the community”, “the company”, and “social movements” in political ecology analyses. The paper maps out entry points to studying the significance of artisan mining within dynamics of extractive capitalism by bringing in conversation political ecology scholarship on extractivism and research on artisan mining through a feminist lens. It develops the notions of “furious depletion”, attempting to capture the stark socioenvironmental injustice through which artisan mining forms an integral part of extractive capitalism, as both a victim and fuel thereof. The notion also emphasizes the significance of emotions - such as infuriation - in thinking through unjust human-environment relations for transformation. It focuses specifically on the ways relations of gender and race mediate human-environment relations, can help clarify an understanding of artisan mining in the depletion dynamics underlying extractivism. Given the acceleration of mining as part of digital and energy transitions, and the expansion of artisan mining, an engaged conceptualization of artisan mining may support struggles away from extractive capitalism for the decades to come.

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“…What has driven us to the cliff edge of ecological and social catastrophe (that we may already be falling off) and underpins climate change, is a politics of commodification of nature that fuels global extractivism and is intimately connected to neoliberal economics (Nygren et al, 2022). Those living on today’s ecological and social margins tend to be historically marginalised and are often racialised communities - they are the most affected.…”

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Empathy in action research

Apgar

2022

Action Research

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Empathy is commonly referred to as "walking in another's shoes"it is the feeling that you understand and share another person's experience. Sharing of lived experience is at the heart of relationality in action research (e.g. Bradbury & Divecha, 2020). When Orlando Fals Borda was experimenting on the Caribbean coast of Colombia in the 1970s his practice "did not follow a recipe, but instead, it was a kind of intersubjective and empathetic dialogue between researchers and the subject groups, one that would be adjusted to the particular circumstances of the research relationship." (Pereira & Joanne, 2021, p. 55). Appreciating action research as a process through which empathy is built is not new, yet exploration of this dimension of action research has to date been limited (Dadds, 2008).Themed issues such as this one are the product of curation by the editorial team. The papers presented here were already published online and were not written to fit within an empathy themed issue. Taken as a whole the five papers in this issue shine a light on different dimensions of empathy building through their exploration of the relational and intersubjective qualities of an action research process.

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Global extractivisms and transformative alternatives

Cited by 35 publications

References 133 publications

Energy extractivism and water dispossession by contamination: an essay of fracking in mexican legal order

Energy extractivism and water dispossession by contamination: an essay of fracking in mexican legal order

Furious depletion—Conceptualizing artisan mining and extractivism through gender, race, and environment

Empathy in action research

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