From Extractivism to Sustainability

Scenarios and Lessons from Latin America
Herausgeber: Veltmeyer, Henry; Ezquerro-Cañete, Arturo

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates how extractive capitalism has developed over the past three decades, what dynamics of resistance have been deployed to combat it, and whether extractivism can ever be transformed into being a part of a progressive development path.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9781032295213
• ISBN-10: 103229521X
• Artikelnr.: 66737823

Autorenporträt

Henry Veltmeyer is Senior Research Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico, and Professor Emeritus of International Development Studies (IDS) at Saint Mary's University, Canada, with a specialized interest in Latin American development. Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete is Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CALAS) at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: The Contemporary Dynamics of Global Capitalism 1: The
contradictions and verities of capitalism 2: The geoeconomics and
geopolitics of extractive capital in Latin America Part II: Extractivism in
the Mines and the Countryside: Development Dynamics 3: Mexico's mining and
petroleum policies under AMLO: A turn to neo-extractivism? 4: The power
politics of agro-extractivism for sustainability transformations 5: Water,
Land and Gold: Extractivism and the environment in Colombia Part III:
Towards a Sustainable Development Pathway: Extractivism or a New Industrial
Policy? 6: Is there a role for extractivism in a postdevelopment transition
towards sustainability? 7: The green energy transition: Expansion and
deepening of extractivism 8: The new geographies of an energy transition: A
challenge or a developmental opportunity? Part IV: Resistance on the
Extractive Frontier 9: Reloaded neo-extractivism, multi-actor conflicts and
alternative horizons: Keys to the socio-ecological crisis 10: Beyond
corporate social responsibility: New territorial management strategies for
defeating community-based resistance to extractivism 11: Communities in
resistance: Forging the communitarian revolutionary subject Part V:
Post-Extractivist Alternatives 12: Post-extractivist transitions: Concepts,
sequences and examples 13: Sumak Kawsay for Indigenous Women 14: Commune
socialism: Self-management, popular power and autonomy in Venezuela 15:
Beyond extractivism: Post-extractivist alternatives and pathways