From Extractivism to Sustainability: Scenarios and Lessons from Latin America

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Henry Veltmeyer (Universidad de Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico; Saint Mary's University, Canada) Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete

From Extractivism to Sustainability

Scenarios and Lessons from Latin America

Henry Veltmeyer (Universidad de Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico; Saint Mary's University, Canada), Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete

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English

Routledge
26 August 2024

Economics of industrial organisation; Development economics; Environmental economics; Primary industries; Human geography

Series: Routledge Critical Development Studies

This book investigates how extractive capitalism has developed over the past three decades, what dynamics of resistance have been deployed to combat it, and whether extractivism can ever be transformed into being a part of a progressive development path.

It was not until the 20th century that the extraction of natural resources and raw materials took on a decidedly capitalist form, with the global north extracting primary commodities from the global south as a means of capital accumulation. This book investigates whether extractivism, despite its well-documented negative and destructive socioenvironmental impacts and the powerful forces of resistance that it has generated, could ever be transformed into a sustainable post-development strategy. Drawing on diverse sectoral forms of extractivism (mining, fossil fuels, agriculture), this book analyses the dynamics of both the forces of resistance generated by the advance of extractive capital and alternate scenarios for a more sustainable and liveable future. The book draws particularly on the Latin American experience, where both the propensity of capitalism towards crisis and the development of resistance dynamics to ‘extractive’ capital have had their greatest impact in the neoliberal era.

This book will be of interest to researchers and students across development studies, economics, political economy, environmental studies, Indigenous studies, and Latin American affairs.

Edited by: Henry Veltmeyer (Universidad de Autónoma de Zacatecas Mexico; Saint Mary's University Canada), Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032295220
ISBN 10: 1032295228
Series: Routledge Critical Development Studies
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 26 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Henry Veltmeyer is Senior Research Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico, and Professor Emeritus of International Development Studies (IDS) at Saint Mary’s University, Canada, with a specialized interest in Latin American development. Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete is Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CALAS) at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico.