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. It
was not until the 21st century that the extraction of natural
resources and raw materials took on a decidedly capitalist form,
with the global north extracting primary commodities from the
global south as a means of capital accumulation. This book
investigates whether extractivism, despite its well-documented
negative and destructive socioenvironmental impacts and the
powerful forces of resistance that it has generated, could ever be
transformed into a sustainable post-development strategy. Drawing
on diverse sectoral forms of extractivism (mining, fossil fuels,
agriculture), this book analyses the dynamics of both the forces of
resistance generated by the advance of extractive capital and
alternate scenarios for a more sustainable and liveable future. The
book draws particularly on the Latin American experience, where
both the propensity of capitalism towards crisis and the
development of resistance dynamics to 'extractive' capital have had
their greatest impact in the neoliberal era. This book will be of
interest to researchers and students across development studies,
economics, political economy, environmental studies, indigenous
studies, and Latin American affairs.
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