Grassroots Responses to Extractivism
Case Studies from Around the World
Published on 6. February 2025
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-350-33160-0 (ISBN)
Description
This volume makes visible innovative resistances and solutions from across the world, in response to extractivism and global ecological crises.
Rooted in capitalism and coloniality, extractive regimes and socio-ecological crises are subjecting marginalized, Indigenous, and subaltern communities to the worst repercussions.
Mainstream environmental policies favor market-based approaches premised on a hegemonic Western worldview that reproduce injustices and extractivism. However, the grassroots responses showcased in this book demonstrate how local communities and Indigenous peoples resist and create solutions on their own terms and cultures, when confronted with displacement, ecological destruction, and loss of sustainable ways of life. The book details a wide variety of case studies from across Asia, Africa, and Abya Yala (the Americas).
The contributors, composed of a mix of academics and activists, propose bottom-up solutions and pluriversal pathways beyond resistance, highlighting how anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, and anti-anthropocentric alternatives and movements are realistic and appropriate for a world-system in ecological overdrive.
Rooted in capitalism and coloniality, extractive regimes and socio-ecological crises are subjecting marginalized, Indigenous, and subaltern communities to the worst repercussions.
Mainstream environmental policies favor market-based approaches premised on a hegemonic Western worldview that reproduce injustices and extractivism. However, the grassroots responses showcased in this book demonstrate how local communities and Indigenous peoples resist and create solutions on their own terms and cultures, when confronted with displacement, ecological destruction, and loss of sustainable ways of life. The book details a wide variety of case studies from across Asia, Africa, and Abya Yala (the Americas).
The contributors, composed of a mix of academics and activists, propose bottom-up solutions and pluriversal pathways beyond resistance, highlighting how anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, and anti-anthropocentric alternatives and movements are realistic and appropriate for a world-system in ecological overdrive.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
560 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-33160-0 (9781350331600)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
FELIX MANTZ is an instructor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA.
MARIKO FRAME is Associate Professor of Economics at Merrimack College, USA.
SAMUEL GRANT is a faculty member at Metropolitan State University, USA, the Executive Director at Rainbow Research, and a fellow of the Institute of the Environment at the University of Minnesota, USA.
MARIKO FRAME is Associate Professor of Economics at Merrimack College, USA.
SAMUEL GRANT is a faculty member at Metropolitan State University, USA, the Executive Director at Rainbow Research, and a fellow of the Institute of the Environment at the University of Minnesota, USA.
Content
List of Illustrations
I Introduction
Framing Socio-ecological Crises in the World-System: Living Histories and Deep Structures - Mariko Frame and Felix Mantz
Coming Home - Haider Khan
II Existing Struggles
1. The Pathalgadi Movement of Jharkhand, India: Three Theses on Indigenous Rebellion at the Limits of Liberal Democratic Politics - Pratik Raghu
2. Challenging Hegemonic Water Governance: Ontological Plurality in Sikkim, India - Dawa Yangi Sherpa
3. Scoping Coercive Technologies of Extraction: Lessons from Struggles against Land Grabbing in Tanzania - Felix Mantz
4. Participatory Video Is a Revolutionary Tool! - Samwel Nangiria and Nick Lunch
5. Between the Forbidden Forests: Conservation in the Krahn-Bassa Proposed Protected Areas (KPPAs) in Liberia - Ali D. Kaba and Baba Sillah
6. The Boeung Kak Lake Evictions and the Experience of Women in Cambodian Land Dispossessions - Mariko Frame
7. Community-Led Activism in Cambodia's Prey Lang Forest - Narith Nou, Mariko Frame, Felix Mantz, and Sam Grant
III Pluriversal Perspectives for and beyond Resistance
8. Nourishing Communal Territories of Life: Indigenous and Afro-Indigenous Resurgences beyond Earth Crisis - Leonardo Figueroa Helland, Angela Martinez, Neftali Reyes Mendez, Angelica Castro Rodriguez, Juan Jose Lopez Negrete, Mileida Correa, Jose Gualinga, and Caca Yvaire
9. Lifting up the Liberation Praxis of Africana Indigenous Peoples, Peasants, and Urban Slum Survivors - Samuel Leguizamon Grant
10. Racial Capitalism, Imperialism, Eco-Apartheid, and the Necessity of Fundamental Social Change - Rose M. Brewer
11. Estranged in Urban Beirut: Anthropocentric Ecological Destruction, Mysticist Shia Islam, and Epistemological Alternatives - Ali Kassem
12. Affective Multispecies Resistance as Radical Imaginations - Abigail Perez Aguilera
IV Conclusion
Connecting Struggles: Final Reflections and Key Insights Felix Mantz and Mariko Frame
Notes on Contributors
Index
I Introduction
Framing Socio-ecological Crises in the World-System: Living Histories and Deep Structures - Mariko Frame and Felix Mantz
Coming Home - Haider Khan
II Existing Struggles
1. The Pathalgadi Movement of Jharkhand, India: Three Theses on Indigenous Rebellion at the Limits of Liberal Democratic Politics - Pratik Raghu
2. Challenging Hegemonic Water Governance: Ontological Plurality in Sikkim, India - Dawa Yangi Sherpa
3. Scoping Coercive Technologies of Extraction: Lessons from Struggles against Land Grabbing in Tanzania - Felix Mantz
4. Participatory Video Is a Revolutionary Tool! - Samwel Nangiria and Nick Lunch
5. Between the Forbidden Forests: Conservation in the Krahn-Bassa Proposed Protected Areas (KPPAs) in Liberia - Ali D. Kaba and Baba Sillah
6. The Boeung Kak Lake Evictions and the Experience of Women in Cambodian Land Dispossessions - Mariko Frame
7. Community-Led Activism in Cambodia's Prey Lang Forest - Narith Nou, Mariko Frame, Felix Mantz, and Sam Grant
III Pluriversal Perspectives for and beyond Resistance
8. Nourishing Communal Territories of Life: Indigenous and Afro-Indigenous Resurgences beyond Earth Crisis - Leonardo Figueroa Helland, Angela Martinez, Neftali Reyes Mendez, Angelica Castro Rodriguez, Juan Jose Lopez Negrete, Mileida Correa, Jose Gualinga, and Caca Yvaire
9. Lifting up the Liberation Praxis of Africana Indigenous Peoples, Peasants, and Urban Slum Survivors - Samuel Leguizamon Grant
10. Racial Capitalism, Imperialism, Eco-Apartheid, and the Necessity of Fundamental Social Change - Rose M. Brewer
11. Estranged in Urban Beirut: Anthropocentric Ecological Destruction, Mysticist Shia Islam, and Epistemological Alternatives - Ali Kassem
12. Affective Multispecies Resistance as Radical Imaginations - Abigail Perez Aguilera
IV Conclusion
Connecting Struggles: Final Reflections and Key Insights Felix Mantz and Mariko Frame
Notes on Contributors
Index