The New Extractivism
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The New Extractivism

A Post-Neoliberal Development Model or Imperialism of the Twenty-First Century?

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The New Extractivism

A Post-Neoliberal Development Model or Imperialism of the Twenty-First Century?

About this book

In a primary commodities boom spurred on by the rise of China, countries the world over are turning to the extraction of natural resources and the export of primary commodities as an antidote to the global recession. The New Extractivism addresses a fundamental dilemma faced by these governments: to pursue, or not, a development strategy based on resource extraction in the face of immense social and environmental costs, not to mention mass resistance from the people negatively affected by it. With fresh insight and analysis from Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru, this book looks at the political dynamics of capitalist development in a region where the neoliberal model is collapsing under the weight of a resistance movement lead by peasant farmers and indigenous communities. It calls for us to understand the new extractivism not as a viable development model for the post-neoliberal world, but as the dangerous emergence of a new form of imperialism.

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Information

Publisher
Zed Books
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781780329932
eBook ISBN
9781780329956

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. About the Editors
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Figures and tables
  7. Abbreviations
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 A new model or extractive imperialism?
  10. 2 Argentina: Extractivist dynamics of soy production and open-pit mining
  11. 3 Bolivia: Between voluntarist developmentalism and pragmatic extractivism
  12. 4 Colombia: The mining boom: a catalyst of development or resistance?
  13. 5 Ecuador: Extractivist dynamics, politics and discourse
  14. 6 Mexico: The political ecology of mining
  15. 7 Peru: Mining capital and social resistance
  16. 8 Theses on extractive imperialism and the post-neoliberal state
  17. Notes on contributors
  18. Notes
  19. References
  20. Index