This volume makes visible innovative resistances and solutions from across the world, in response to extractivism and global ecological crises.
Rooted in capitalism and coloniality, extractive regimes and socio-ecological crises are subjecting marginalized, Indigenous, and subaltern communities to the worst repercussions. Mainstream environmental policies favor market-based approaches premised on a hegemonic Western worldview that reproduce injustices and extractivism. However, the grassroots responses showcased in this book demonstrate how local communities and Indigenous peoples resist and create solutions on their own terms and cultures, when confronted with displacement, ecological destruction, and loss of sustainable ways of life. The book details a wide variety of case studies from across Asia, Africa, and Abya Yala (the Americas).
The contributors, composed of a mix of academics and activists, propose bottom-up solutions and pluriversal pathways beyond resistance, highlighting how anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, and anti-anthropocentric alternatives and movements are realistic and appropriate for a world-system in ecological overdrive.
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Highlights the transformative agency, innovative solutions, and radical praxis emanating from communities in the Global South in response to the climate crisis.
List of Illustrations
I Introduction
Framing Socio-ecological Crises in the World-System: Living Histories and
Deep Structures - Mariko Frame and Felix Mantz
Coming Home - Haider Khan
II Existing Struggles
1. The Pathalgadi Movement of Jharkhand, India: Three Theses on Indigenous
Rebellion at the Limits of Liberal Democratic Politics - Pratik Raghu
2. Challenging Hegemonic Water Governance: Ontological Plurality in Sikkim,
India - Dawa Yangi Sherpa
3. Scoping Coercive Technologies of Extraction: Lessons from Struggles
against Land Grabbing in Tanzania - Felix Mantz
4. Participatory Video Is a Revolutionary Tool! - Samwel Nangiria and Nick
Lunch
5. Between the Forbidden Forests: Conservation in the Krahn-Bassa Proposed
Protected Areas (KPPAs) in Liberia - Ali D. Kaba and Baba Sillah
6. The Boeung Kak Lake Evictions and the Experience of Women in Cambodian
Land Dispossessions - Mariko Frame
7. Community-Led Activism in Cambodias Prey Lang Forest - Narith Nou, Mariko
Frame, Felix Mantz, and Sam Grant
III Pluriversal Perspectives for and beyond Resistance
8. Nourishing Communal Territories of Life: Indigenous and Afro-Indigenous
Resurgences beyond Earth Crisis - Leonardo Figueroa Helland, Angela Martinez,
Neftalí Reyes Mendez, Angélica Castro Rodríguez, Juan José López Negrete,
Mileida Correa, José Gualinga, and Çaca Yvaire
9. Lifting up the Liberation Praxis of Africana Indigenous Peoples, Peasants,
and Urban Slum Survivors - Samuel Leguizamon Grant
10. Racial Capitalism, Imperialism, Eco-Apartheid, and the Necessity of
Fundamental Social Change - Rose M. Brewer
11. Estranged in Urban Beirut: Anthropocentric Ecological Destruction,
Mysticist Shia Islam, and Epistemological Alternatives - Ali Kassem
12. Affective Multispecies Resistance as Radical Imaginations - Abigail Pérez
Aguilera
IV Conclusion
Connecting Struggles: Final Reflections and Key Insights Felix Mantz and
Mariko Frame
Notes on Contributors
Index
FELIX MANTZ is an instructor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA.
MARIKO FRAME is Associate Professor of Economics at Merrimack College, USA.
SAMUEL GRANT is a faculty member at Metropolitan State University, USA, the Executive Director at Rainbow Research, and a fellow of the Institute of the Environment at the University of Minnesota, USA.
