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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823897703321

Autore

Veltmeyer Henry

Titolo

The new extractivism : a post-neoliberal development model or imperialism of the twenty-first century? / / Henry Veltmeyer and James Petras ; with Verónica Albuja [and six others] ; cover designed by Liam Chapple

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2014

[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021

ISBN

1-350-22333-6

1-78032-995-4

1-78032-994-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Disciplina

338.2

Soggetti

Mines and mineral resources - Social aspects - Latin America

Economic development - Social aspects - Latin America

Social movements - Latin America

Political economy

Development studies

Development economics & emerging economies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- A new model or extractive imperialism? -- Argentina : Extractivist dynamics of soy production and open-pit mining / Norma Giarracca and Miguel Teubal -- Bolivia : between voluntarist developmentalism and pragmatic extractivism / Henry Veltmeyer -- Columbia : the mining boom : a catalyst of development or resistance? / Kyla Sankey -- Ecuador : extractivist dynamics, politics and discourse / Pablo Dávalos and Verónica Albuja -- Mexico : the political ecology of mining / Darcy Victor Tetreault -- Peru : mining capital and social resistance / Jan Lust -- Theses on extractive imperialism and the post-neoliberal state.

Sommario/riassunto

In a primary commodities boom spurred on by the rise of China, countries the world over are turning to the extraction and export of



natural resources as an antidote to the global recession. With fresh insight and analysis from Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Columbia and Mexico, this book looks at the political dynamics of capitalist development in a region where the neoliberal model is collapsing under the weight of a resistance movement lead by peasant farmers and indigenous communities.