From Extractivism to Sustainability - Scenarios and Lessons from Latin America (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Critical Development Studies
Release date:	February 2023
First published:	2023
Editors:	Henry Veltmeyer • Arturo Ezquerro-Canete
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	328
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-229521-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Development economics Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Regional geography Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Ownership & organization of enterprises > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Primary industries > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > General
LSN:	1-03-229521-X
Barcode:	9781032295213

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