Grassroots Responses to Extractivism
Case Studies from Around the World

Edited by Felix Mantz,Samuel Leguizamon Grant,Dr Mariko Frame

ISBN13: 9781350331648

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Published: 06/02/2025

Availability: Available

Description
This volume makes visible the many innovative resistances and solutions emanating from the Global South, in response to the injustices of the current global ecological crises. Rooted in contemporary ecological imperialism, these crises are subjecting marginalized communities in the Global South to the worst socio-ecological repercussions worldwide, whilst mainstream environmental policies and solutions reproduce market-based approaches premised on a hegemonic Western world-view. The book details a wide variety of case studies from across Asia, Africa and the Americas, such as deforestation activism in Cambodia and grassroots community organisation against large scale land transactions in Liberia – among many others. The contributors, composed of a mix of academics and activists, propose bottom-up solutions to the current ecological and climate crises. This work highlights how anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, and anti-anthropocentric alternatives and movements are realistic, holistic, and appropriate in the face of global ecological crises.
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 Cambodia’s 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
  • Political ideologies
  • Political activism
  • Environmentalist thought & ideology
  • Environmentalist, conservationist & Green organizations
  • Professional & Vocational
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