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Scientific paper • 2014

Post-Extracivism and De-Growth: Two Sides of the Same Perspective?

Abstract: Post-Extracivism and De-Growth: Two Sides of the Same Perspective? There are at two continents two thrilling debates taking place. In Europe, the degrowth perspective pushes a dynamic political and scientific debate in Europe which started some years ago in order to develop alternatives to the business-as-usual strategies. Since the beginning of the economic crisis, those strategies...

Scientific paper • 2014

Commodity frontiers and degrowth

By: Marta Conde, Mariana Walter

Abstract: ‘Commodity frontiers’ are a result of the increasing social metabolism of industrialised economies that is pushing the search for raw materials into new lands. This expansion is creating social and environmental degradation at these frontiers and fostering socio-environmental conflicts. We review the concept of ‘commodity frontiers’ analyzing its roots through Jason Moore’s theory...

Scientific paper • 2014

A dialogue with feminisms: Mining, social movements and horizons of transformation

By: Mar Daza

Abstract: A new cycle of colonial expansion for the massive extraction of common goods is currently restructuring the relationship between humanity and nature, and thus the relationship between market, autonomous societies and State as well as the relations between global North and South and gender relations. This reality issues a complicated challenge to social movements seeking...

Scientific paper • 2014

Sumak Kawsay: Living non-‐capitalist values in a capitalist world.

By: Lucia Gallardo

Sumak Kawsay, anti-capitalist, Eurocentric, indigenous women, non-capitalist values, emergence and time

Scientific paper • 2014

From building resistance to building alternatives – post-extractivist perspectives from below

By: Facundo Martín

Development, Territorial sovereignty, Radical democracy, Reappropriation, Argentina, Brazil

Scientific paper • 2014

Extractivism, neocolonialism and redistribution

By: Esperanza Martinez

Abstract: Our era is characterized by the end of easy-to-extract oil reserves. Unconventional and risky extraction techniques are proliferating. Oil extraction as motor of an economy has always had significant consequences for social and political organization, which are best understood if one looks at the different stages of oil exploitation, from prospection through production, processing and...

Scientific paper • 2014

The Conservation-Extraction Conundrum: The commodification of nature across vertical boundaries

By: Timothy Norris

private conservation, Peru, extraction, property institutions, de-growth

Scientific paper • 2014

Land-grabbing procedures and social resistance in the European continent. The case of Chalkidiki (Greece) movement against gold mining.

By: Konstantinos Petrakos

Abstract: Subject of this research are the transformations of space due to the operation of mining activities in the territorial unity of the North East (NE) Chalkidiki. The changes occurring in the field of application of the extractive development model, are investigated. The procedures of changes in social relations of mining activities in the territorial unity of the North East (N.E.)...

Position paper • 2014

GAP working group 2014 - Resources and Extraction

By: Degrowth Conference Leipzig 2014

Results from the GAP (Group Assembly Process) Group Resources and Extraction at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014 > Rethinking technology – towards sufficiency and a sustainable production. > Technology transfer towards renewable energies. > Introduce resource issues into trade unions and job issues (p.e. RSA: one million climate jobs). > Re-politicize Renewable Energies,...

Position paper • 2014

Resources & Extraction

By: Ulrich Brand

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Resources and Extraction.

Presentation • 2014

Post-Extractivism and De-Growth: Two Sides of the Same Perspective?

By: Ulrich Brand

Contribution to a special session at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speaker: Ulrich Brand Abstract of the paper "Post-Extracivism and De-Growth: Two Sides of the Same Perspective?": There are at two continents two thrilling debates taking place. In Europe, the degrowth perspective pushes a dynamic political...

Scientific paper • 2012

The risk perception regarding a gold mining project in Romania

By: Cosmina-Maria Berindei

Abstract: This paper aims to present the results of an anthropological research regarding the risk perception in the case of the Roșia Montana gold mining project. The methods that were used are specific in the qualitative research and were aimed at the most controversial project of post-communist Romania. The scope of the project is to exploit the gold in open mining using the cyanide in the...

Misc • 2012

Der neue Extraktivismus - Eine Debatte über die Grenzen des Rohstoffmodells in Lateinamerika

By: Miriam Lang, Alberto Acosta, Eduardo Gudynas, Maristella Svampa, Norma Giarracca, Tobias Lambert, Tomás Palmisano, Sarela Paz, David Rojas-Kienzle, Mark Weisbrot, Rebecca Ray, Luis Sandoval, Jake Johnston

Lateinamerika ist seit Jahrhunderten Rohstofflieferant für Europas Industrie. Dies hat sich trotz der politischen Umwälzungen des letzten Jahrzehnts nicht grundlegend geändert. Obwohl die Rechte der Natur heute z.B. in der Verfassung Ecuadors verankert sind, besteht die ökonomische Fixierung auf den Export von Rohstoffen weiter, teilweise sogar in verstärktem Ausmaß. Daran regt sich Kritik von...

Misc • 2012

Energiekämpfe

By: Olaf Bernau, Alberto Acosta, Tadzio Müller, Christa Wichterich, Dieter Klein, Michael T. Klare, Marcel Hänggi, Uwe Witt, Ewa Charkiewicz, Lucio Cuenca Berger, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Ercan Ayboga, Ursula Schönberger, Hannah Schuster, Selana Tzschiesche, Michelle Wenderlich, Sokari Ekine, Uli Brand, Jörn Krüger, Hardy Feldmann, Dagmar Enkelmann, Luismi Uharte, Bodo Ramelow, Andrea Ypsilanti, Rainer Land, Mario Neukirch, Jan Latza, Peter Schmidt, The Free Association

Zeitschrift «Luxemburg» 01/2012 Die ausgerufene „Energiewende“ setzt auf Grünen Kapitalismus. Wie die Dampf- und Webmaschinen für den Beginn der industriellen Revolution standen, wie Taylorisierung und Fließband die technische Basis für den Fordismus und die IT-Revolution für die Globalisierung bereitstellte, soll die globale Energiewende die Grundlage für einen ökologischen Umbau der...

Presentation • 2010

The Depletion of the Great Mine Earth

By: Alicia Valero, Antonio Valero

Poster by Alicia Valero and Antonio Valero at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "The Depletion of the Great Mine Earth".