"The frontiers of extraction are expanding rapidly, driven by a growing demand for minerals and metals that is often motivated by sustainability considerations. Two volumes of International Development Policy are dedicated to the paradoxes and futures ofgreen extractivism, with analyses of experiences from five continents. In this, the second of the two volumes, the 22 authors, using different conceptual approaches and in different empirical contexts, demonstrate the alarming obduracy of the logic of extractivism, even - and perhaps especially - in the growing support for the so-called green transition. The authors highlight the complex and enduring legacies of resource extraction and the urgent need to move beyond extractive models of development towards alternative pathways that prioritise social justice, environmental sustainability, democratic governance and the well-being of both humans and non-humans. They also caution us against the assumption that anti-extraction is anti-extractivist, that post-extraction is post-extractivism, and they critically attune us to the systemic nature of extractivism in ways that both connect and transcend any particular site or scale. This volume accompanies IDP 15, The Lives of Extraction: Identities, Communities, and the Politics of Place"--
This volume offers new perspectives from five continents on the complex and enduring legacies of resource extraction, and demonstrates the alarming obduracy of the logic of extractivism, even - and perhaps especially - in the growing support for the so-called green transition.
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
1Introduction: Global Afterlives of Extraction
Filipe Calvão, Asanda Benya and Matthew Archer
Part 1
Post-extractivism: Debates and Practices
2Expanding Extractivisms: Extractivisms as Modes of Extraction Sustaining
Imperial Modes of Living
Erik Post
3The Structures of Conquest: Debating Extractivism(s), Infrastructures and
Environmental Justice for Advancing Post-development Pathways
Alexander Dunlap
4Logics of Extraction and of the Valorisation of Culture: the Role of
Post-extraction Investment in the Creation of Inequality in China
Ryan Parsons
5Regulating Mine Rehabilitation and Closure on Indigenous Held Lands:
Insights from the Regulated Resource States of Australia and Canada
Emille Boulot and Ben Collins
Part 2
Resilience, Contestation and Resistance
6Aluminium in Suriname (18982020): an Industry Came and Went, But Its
Impacts on the Maroon Communities Remain
Simon Lobach
7Contesting Extraction: Challenges for Coalition Building between Agrarian
and Anti-mining Movements
Louisa Prause
8We Are Nature Defending Itself: the Forest of Dannenrod Occupation as an
Example of Contested Extractivism in the Global North
Dorothea Hamilton and Sina Trölenberg
9National Resources, Resistance, and the Afterlives of the New International
Economic Order in Bangladesh
Paul Robert Gilbert
Part 3
Green Extractivism and Its Discontents
10The Alterlives of Green Extractivism: Lithium Mining and Exhausted
Ecologies in the Atacama Desert
James J. A. Blair, Ramón M. Balcázar, Javiera
Barandiarán and Amanda Maxwell
11Green Masquerade: Neo-liberalism, Extractive Renewable Energy Transitions,
and the Good Anthropocene in South Africa
Michelle Pressend
12Electric Vehicle Paradise? Exploring the Value Chains of Green
Extractivism
Devyn Remme, Siddharth Sareen, Håvard Haarstad and
Kjetil Rommetveit
Index
Filipe Calvão is an economic and environmental anthropologist. He is an associate professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute. His research examines the politics, ecologies and economies of mineral extraction, with a current focus on the nexus between digitalization, work and extractivism.
Matthew Archer studies corporate sustainability, sustainable finance and sustainable development through the lens of political ecology and environmental anthropology. He is currently a lecturer in sustainability in the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York.
Asanda Benya is a labour sociologist based at the University of Cape Town. She works at the intersection of gender, class and race. She researches the extractives industries, gendered workplace subjectivities, and labour and feminist movements.
