1st Edition
From Extractivism to Sustainability Scenarios and Lessons from Latin America
Introduction
Part 1: The Contemporary Dynamics of Global Capitalism
Chapter 1: The contradictions and verities of capitalism
Raúl Delgado Wise
Chapter 2: The geoeconomics and geopolitics of extractive capital in Latin America
Henry Veltmeyer
Part II: Extractivism in the Mines and the Countryside
Chapter 3: Mexico’s mining and petroleum policies under AMLO: A turn to neo-extractivism?
Darcy Tetreault
Chapter 4: The power politics of agro-extractivism for climate stewardship
Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete, Alberto Alonso Fradejas and Ben McKay
Chapter 5: Water, land and gold: Extractivism and the environment in Colombia
Carolina Arias Hurtado and León Felipe Cubillos Quintero
Part III: Towards a Sustainable Development Pathway: Extractivism or a New Industrial Policy?
Chapter 6: Is there a role for extractivism in a post-development transition towards sustainability?
Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid, Alicia Puyana and Stefanie Garry
Chapter 7: The green energy transition: Expansion and deepening of extractivism
Alicia Puyana and Isabel Rodríguez Peña
Chapter 8: The new geographies of an energy transition: A challenge or a developmental opportunity?
Jewellord Nem Singh
Part IV: Resistance on the Extractive Frontier
Chapter 9: Reloaded neo-extractivism, multi-actor conflicts and alternative horizons: Keys to the socio-ecological crisis
Pabel Camilo López Flores and Anna Preiser
Chapter 10: Beyond corporate social responsibility: New territorial management strategies for defeating community-based resistance to extractivism
Fernando I. Leiva
Chapter 11: Communities in resistance: Forging the communitarian revolutionary subject
David Barkin
Part V: Post-Extractivist Alternatives
Chapter 12: Post-extractivist transitions: Concepts, sequences and examples
Eduardo Gudynas
Chapter 13: Sumak Kawsay for Indigenous Women
Gabriela Gallardo
Chapter 14: Commune socialism: Self-management, popular power and autonomy in Venezuela
Dario Azzellini
Chapter 15: Development beyond extractivism: Post-extractivist alternatives and pathways
Henry Veltmeyer and Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete
Biography
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.
