Global extractivisms and transformative alternatives

This article examines global extractivisms and transformative alternatives; addressing: (1) access to and control over resources, (2) governance and recognition, (3) environmental-social harms, and (4) justice. The examination of these themes provides an understanding of the sociospatial links between extractivism and differentiated distribution of benefits and burdens. The study sheds light on the politics of recognition, including the discourses and policies that enable extractive industries to obtain licences to operate in resource-rich territories. The analysis illuminates the inseparability of environmental-social impacts of extractivism, including altered human-nonhuman relations, while opening perspectives to claims for justice and the search for transformative alternatives.

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This article examines global extractivisms and transformative alternatives, focusing on access to and control over resources, governance and recognition, environmental-social harms, and justice. The study highlights the sociospatial links between extractivism and the distribution of benefits and burdens, as well as the inseparability of the environmental-social impacts. It sheds light on the politics of recognition and provides perspectives for claims of justice and the search for transformative alternatives.