Extractivism is a concept of our time. Large-scale exploitation of nature and appropriation of human-labor fuel the unsustainability of our current world-system. Despite this, research on extractivism ...

Are songs of praise to electric cars leaving out a critical stanza? Lithium batteries are essential for electric cars, which corporations push as an “environmentally friendly” method of transportation ...

The chapter in Latin American history that opened in 1998 with celebrations in Venezuela has ended with a coup and violence in Bolivia. As with all tidal waves, the “pink tide” recedes to reveal a ...

View of pipes related to oil activities of Chinese oil company PetroOriental near the Miwuaguno village, Orellana province, Ecuador, on December 10, 2020. (Cristina Vega Rhor / AFP via Getty Images) ...

The large-scale removal of natural resources from South Africa’s seas for sale on global markets may be profitable, but often comes at the expense of small-scale fishers. Members of affected coastal ...

An alliance of indigenous federations, campesinos, unions, and other groups that oppose proposed constitutional reforms and government policies on a range of issues are planning a new round of ...

Communities around the world are demonstrating how we can move beyond extractivism to revive cultures of care and solidarity. Communities planet-wide are resisting mining and demonstrating how we can ...

The Indigenous Wampís people, whose territory covers more than 1.3 million hectares in Peru’s northern Amazon, are at the frontlines of extractivism and state abandonment. In 2015, they formally ...

This article by Nicole Fabricant and Bret Gustafson was originally published on NACLA's website. Across Latin America, the boom in oil, gas, and mineral extraction and export—extractivism—has ...

Afro-descendant women organisers in Latin America. Photo: Gabby de Cicco. “What is the state? We are the state! The state is the state thanks to us” said Havva Ana (Mother Eve), a 63-year old woman ...