Grassroots Responses to Extractivism
Case Studies from Around the World
Grassroots Responses to Extractivism
Case Studies from Around the World
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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.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2: Africana Critical Theory, Ecological Imperialism and Global Anti-Black Violence as Foundational in the Climate Crisis (Samuel Leguizamon Grant, MN350, Metropolitan State University, USA)
Chapter 3: Ecological Health and Justice Require Decolonization: Coloniality, Ecological Imperialism and Global Ecological Crises (Felix Mantz, Queen Mary University of London, UK)
NON-WESTERN ECOLOGICAL COSMOLOGIES AND WORLDVIEWS
Chapter 4: The Re-Emergence of the World of Cycles: Ceremonial Fire, Anthropocene Ashes, and the Renewal of Territories of Life (Leonardo Figueroa-Helland and Abigail Perez Aguilera, The New School, USA)
Chapter 5: Subverting Anthropocentrism and Shia Muslims: Alternatives From West Asia (Ali M. Kassem, American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
Chapter 6: Nourishing Decolonial Communities of Life: Indigenous and Afro-Indigenous Resurgences Beyond Syndemic Violence and Earth Crisis (Leonardo Figueroa Helland and Angela Martinez, in collaboration with Neftalí Reyes Mendez and Angélica Castro Rodríguez (Zapotec and Mixtec of Oaxaca), Juan José Lopez Negrete (Zenue and Afro-descendant) and Mileida Correa (Zenue), José Gualinga (Kichwa of Sarayaku), Stephanie Morningstar (Kanien'kehá:ka, Wakeniáhten), and Çaca Yvaire (Atakapa Ishak)
RESISTANCES AND STRATEGIES
Chapter 7: Racial Capitalism, Eco-Apartheid and the Necessity of Fundamental Social Change (Rose Brewer, University of Minnesota, USA)
Chapter 8: Interview with Cambodian Deforestation Activists Ouch Leng
Chapter 9: Participatory Video is a Revolutionary Tool! (Samwel Nangiria, Ngorongoro NGO Network and Nick Lunch, Co-InsightShare)
Chapter 10: Making Local Agency Visible: How Local Communities Resisted Large-Scale Land Transactions in Liberia (Ali Kaba, University of Washington, USA)
ALTERNATIVES AND SOLUTIONS FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH
Chapter 11: Evaluating Results and Transformative Potentials in Social Movement Praxis (Samuel Leguizamon Grant, MN350, Metropolitan State University, USA)
Chapter 12: The Pathalgadi Movement Of Jharkhand, India: A Case Study in Indigenous Revolt Beyond the Terms of Conventional Politics (Pratik Raghu, University of California Santa Barbara, USA)
Chapter 13: RISE and Treaty Rights Discourse in Northern Minnesota (Nancy Beaulieu, RISE Coalition and Dawn Goodwin, RISE Coalition)
Chapter 14: Poetry as Praxis for Resistance (Kahnapad Haider (Haider A. Khan), University of Denver, USA)
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | Apr 17 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 240 |
| ISBN | 9781350331648 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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