Grassroots Responses to Extractivism: Case Studies from Around the World

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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.

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Mariko Frame is an international political economist whose research focuses on critical political economy perspectives on the environment. She is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Merrimack College in Massachusetts, USA. Samuel Grant has been an organizer working through the intersections of environmental, economic, racial, gender and cultural justice for decades. Since 1990 he has been on faculty at Metropolitan State University, USA, where he created the Minor in Community Organizing and Development. He currently leads MN350 as Executive Director. He is also a fellow of the Institute of the Environment, University of Minnesota, USA. Felix Mantz is a doctoral researcher and teaching associate at Queen Mary University of London, UK. His doctoral thesis examines persisting colonial relations to land and ecologies in Tanzania by drawing on a variety of methods, including archival research and interviews. His latest work can be found in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE), Review of International Political Economy (RIPE), and Journal of International Relations and Development (JIRD).