Extractive Imperialism In The Americas
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Author | : James Petras |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2014-07-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004268863 |
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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 | : James Petras |
Publisher | : Zed Books Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2014-03-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1780329954 |
Download The New Extractivism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Sarah E. Van De Vort Emery |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Capitalism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James Petras |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2015-11-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004307427 |
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This book concerns the form taken today by US imperialism in Latin America, with reference to the projection of US state power as a means of both advancing the economic interests of the US capitalist class in the region and maintaining its hegemony over the world capitalist system. In Part I the book delves into the complex relationship that exists between imperialism and capitalism as the system that dominates the world economy. Part II elaborates on the economic and political dynamics of imperial power in Latin America and the forces of resistance that these dynamics have generated. Part III focuses on the relationship between the United States and Venezuela, which has assumed the leadership in the anti-imperialist struggle.
Author | : Todd Gordon |
Publisher | : Fernwood Publishing |
Total Pages | : 507 |
Release | : 2016-12-07T00:00:00Z |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1552668452 |
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Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction examines the increasing presence of Canadian mining companies in Latin America and the environmental and human rights abuses that have occurred as a result. By following the money, Gordon and Webber illustrate the myriad ways Canadian-based multinational corporations, backed by the Canadian state, have developed extensive economic interests in Latin America over the last two decades at the expense of Latin American people and the environment. Latin American communities affected by Canadian resource extraction are now organized into hundreds of opposition movements, from Mexico to Argentina, and the authors illustrate the strategies used by the Canadian state to silence this resistance and advance corporate interests.
Author | : Donald Clark Hodges |
Publisher | : Boston : P. Sargent |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Kalowatie Deonandan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2016-07-15 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1317414497 |
Download Mining in Latin America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2019-01-01 |
Genre | : Environmental policy |
ISBN | : 331993435X |
Download Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Exploring indigenous life projects in encounters with extractivism, the present open access volume discusses how current turbulences actualise questions of indigeneity, difference and ontological dynamics in the Andes and Amazonia. While studies of extractivism in South America often focus on wider national and international politics, this contribution instead provides ethnographic explorations of indigenous politics, perspectives and worlds, revealing loss and suffering as well as creative strategies to mediate the extralocal. Seeking to avoid conceptual imperialism or the imposition of exogenous categories, the chapters are grounded in the respective authors’ long-standing field research. The authors examine the reactions (from resistance to accommodation), consequences (from anticipation to rubble) and materials (from fossil fuel to water) diversely related to extractivism in rural and urban settings. How can Amerindian strategies to preserve localised communities in extractivist contexts contribute to ways of thinking otherwise?
Author | : Lee Wengraf |
Publisher | : Haymarket Books |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2018-02-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1608468763 |
Download Extracting Profit Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Extracting profit explains why Africa, in the first decade and a half of the twenty-first century, has undergone an economic boom. This period of “Africa rising” did not lead to the creation of jobs but has instead fueled the growth of the extraction of natural resources and an increasingly-wealthy African ruling class.
Author | : Macarena Gómez-Barris |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2017-10-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0822372568 |
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In The Extractive Zone Macarena Gómez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative practices that emerge in opposition to the ruinous effects of extractive capital. The work of Indigenous activists, intellectuals, and artists in spaces Gómez-Barris labels extractive zones—majority indigenous regions in South America noted for their biodiversity and long history of exploitative natural resource extraction—resist and refuse the terms of racial capital and the continued legacies of colonialism. Extending decolonial theory with race, sexuality, and critical Indigenous studies, Gómez-Barris develops new vocabularies for alternative forms of social and political life. She shows how from Colombia to southern Chile artists like filmmaker Huichaqueo Perez and visual artist Carolina Caycedo formulate decolonial aesthetics. She also examines the decolonizing politics of a Bolivian anarcho-feminist collective and a coalition in eastern Ecuador that protects the region from oil drilling. In so doing, Gómez-Barris reveals the continued presence of colonial logics and locates emergent modes of living beyond the boundaries of destructive extractive capital.