Grassroots Responses to Extractivism
Case Studies from Around the World
Published on 6. February 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-350-33164-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume makes visible the many innovative resistances and solutions emanating from the Global South, in response to the injustices of the current global ecological crises. Rooted in contemporary ecological imperialism, these crises are subjecting marginalized communities in the Global South to the worst socio-ecological repercussions worldwide, whilst mainstream environmental policies and solutions reproduce market-based approaches premised on a hegemonic Western world-view.
The book details a wide variety of case studies from across Asia, Africa and the Americas, such as deforestation activism in Cambodia and grassroots community organisation against large scale land transactions in Liberia - among many others. The contributors, composed of a mix of academics and activists, propose bottom-up solutions to the current ecological and climate crises. This work highlights how anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, and anti-anthropocentric alternatives and movements are realistic, holistic, and appropriate in the face of global ecological crises.
The book details a wide variety of case studies from across Asia, Africa and the Americas, such as deforestation activism in Cambodia and grassroots community organisation against large scale land transactions in Liberia - among many others. The contributors, composed of a mix of academics and activists, propose bottom-up solutions to the current ecological and climate crises. This work highlights how anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, and anti-anthropocentric alternatives and movements are realistic, holistic, and appropriate in the face of global ecological crises.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
412 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-33164-8 (9781350331648)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Mariko Frame is an international political economist whose research focuses on critical political economy perspectives on the environment. She is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Merrimack College in Massachusetts, USA.
Samuel Grant has been an organizer working through the intersections of environmental, economic, racial, gender and cultural justice for decades. Since 1990 he has been on faculty at Metropolitan State University, USA, where he created the Minor in Community Organizing and Development. He currently leads MN350 as Executive Director. He is also a fellow of the Institute of the Environment, University of Minnesota, USA.
Felix Mantz is a doctoral researcher and teaching associate at Queen Mary University of London, UK. His doctoral thesis examines persisting colonial relations to land and ecologies in Tanzania by drawing on a variety of methods, including archival research and interviews. His latest work can be found in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE), Review of International Political Economy (RIPE), and Journal of International Relations and Development (JIRD).
Samuel Grant has been an organizer working through the intersections of environmental, economic, racial, gender and cultural justice for decades. Since 1990 he has been on faculty at Metropolitan State University, USA, where he created the Minor in Community Organizing and Development. He currently leads MN350 as Executive Director. He is also a fellow of the Institute of the Environment, University of Minnesota, USA.
Felix Mantz is a doctoral researcher and teaching associate at Queen Mary University of London, UK. His doctoral thesis examines persisting colonial relations to land and ecologies in Tanzania by drawing on a variety of methods, including archival research and interviews. His latest work can be found in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE), Review of International Political Economy (RIPE), and Journal of International Relations and Development (JIRD).
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