In the struggle for Mozambique’s independence, the first shots for liberation were fired in Cabo Delgado, the country’s northernmost province. On 25 June 2025, Mozambique’s 50th Independence Day, Cabo ...

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 ...

The debate has led to the coining of the term “extractivism”. While almost non-existent in leftist discourse only a few years ago, extractivism has become a central focus for many progressives In ...

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 ...

Athamanta defines itself as a path of self-training and action that deals with the issue of extractivism in the Apuan ...

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) ...

Latin American Extractivism is a compilation of articles analysing the political economy of resource nationalism and policies of natural resource extraction by left and right-wing governments, with ...

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 is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract During the mid-1980s, Colombia joined the neoliberal global economy in two ways: (1) by implementing a "low-intensity democracy" made up of ...