Extractive Industries

Extractivisme et Résistance en Afrique du Nord

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Climate Justice, Transnational Corporations, Environmental Justice, Extractive Industries, Extractivism and resistance in North Africa, Extractivisme et Résistance en Afrique du Nord

Extractivism and resistance in North Africa

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Climate Justice, Transnational Corporations, Environmental Justice, Extractive Industries, Extractivism and resistance in North Africa, النمط الاستخراجي ومقاومته في شمال افريقيا,

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Revisiting power and powerlessness: Speculating West Virginia’s energy future and the externalities of the socioecologial fix

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United States

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The agrarian question in Brazilian Amazonia: Authoritarian populism and neo-clientalism among timber companies and riberinho communities in western Para state, Brazil

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Brazil

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Authoritarian populism and neo-extractivism in Bolivia and Ecuador: The unresolved agrarian question and the prospects for food sovereignty as counter-hegemony

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Bolivia

Ecuador

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Rentier states and neo-extractivism: Venezuela’s Orinoco mining arc program

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Venezuela

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State-corporate alliances and spaces for resistance on the extractive frontier in southeastern Madagascar

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Mozambique

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Extractivismo y resistencia comunitaria en Honduras

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Honduras

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Extractivismo y resistencia comunitaria en Honduras, Berta Cáceres,

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Venezuela: un barril de pólvora

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Nueva Política

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Article

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Edgardo Lander

Santiago Arconada Rodríguez

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Mientras se acelera la profunda crisis económica, política y ética que vive la sociedad venezolana, la reciente convocatoria de una Asamblea Constituyente podría desembocar en un enfrentamiento civil.

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Un manifestante se enfrenta a la Guardia Nacional de Venezuela durante una protesta en mayo de 2017. / Photo credit Efecto Eco @Wiki Media Commons... Read more

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Nueva Sociedad No 269

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Democratic deficit

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Venezuela

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Lenin Moreno - A new chapter for Ecuador?

Language English

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Trade & Investment

Agrarian & Environmental Justice

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Article

Authors:

David Fig

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As Ecuador’s new president, Lenin Moreno Garcés, gave his inaugural speech to the National Assembly members, and a number of invited Latin American presidents, an important question is what will change after the ten-year incumbency of his predecessor, Rafael Correa.

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Correa started in office as a critic of neo-liberalism, distancing himself from the IMF and World Bank, and setting up a constituent assembly to rewrite the 1998 constitution. Rights of indigenous people and nature were extended, while recognizing the concept of plurinationality as Bolivia had done, and there were high expectations of a new ability to include the formerly marginalized. For... Read more

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