Read:
Murat Arsel, Barbara Hogenboom, and Lorenzo Pelligrini (2016) The Extractive Imperative in Latin America. The Extractive Industries and Society 3 (4): 880-887.
Maristella Svampa (2015) “Commodities Consensus: Neoextractivism and Enclosure of the Commons in Latin America” The South Atlantic Quarterly 114 (1): 65-82.
Discuss:
1.What is ‘the extractive imperative’? How have countries attempted to escape it? In what ways have they been successful? How have they failed? Why?
2.How does progressive extractivism differ from traditional extractivism?
3.Svampa (2015) describes the ‘ecoterritorial turn’ as a ‘productive intersection’ of resistance movements (69). Please explain this turn and this intersection. Is it something we only see in Latin America today?
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