From Extractivism to Sustainability: Scenarios and Lessons from Latin America

ISBN-13: 9781032295213 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 328 str.

Veltmeyer, Henry

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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