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Author Kröger, Markus, 1980- author.

Title Extractivisms, existences and extinctions : monoculture plantations and Amazon deforestation / Markus Kröger
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 155 pages) : illustrations
Series Rethinking globalizations
Rethinking globalizations.
Contents Extractivisms, existences and extinctions -- The political economy of existences and extractivisms -- Four key questions for the study of existences : the agroextractivist monocultures in Mato Grosso -- Conclusions: Global extractivisms, the world-ecology and existential redistributions
Summary "This book explores the existential redistributions that extractivist frontiers create, going beyond existing studies by bringing into the English-language discussion much of the wisdom from Latin American rural and forest communities' understandings of extractivist phenomena, and the destruction and changes in lives and lived environments they create. The author explores the many different types of extractivism, ranging from agro-extractivist monocultures to mineral extraction, and analyzes the differences between them. The existential transformations of Brazil's Amazon and Cerrado regions, previously inhabited by Indigenous people but now being deforested by colonizers who expand soybean plantations, are analyzed in detail. The author also compares extractivisms with the local and broader existential changes through global production networks and their shifts, produced by monoculture plantation-based extractivist operations. Anchored in the author's own ethnographic data and comparison of lessons across multiple extractivist frontiers, the chapters integrate the many accounts of violence, and onto-epistemic and moral changes in extractivist enclaves, looking at these with the help of political ontology. The book offers details on how to characterize and compare different types and degrees of extractivisms and anti-extractivisms. This transdisciplinary book provides new organizing concepts and theoretical frameworks for starting to analyze the unfolding natural resource politics of the post-coronavirus era, the advancing climate emergency, and the ever more chaotic multi-polar world. It will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of international development, global value chains, political economy, Latin American Studies, political ecology, and international trade, as well as anyone engaged with the practical and political issues related to globalization"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-151) and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Natural resources -- Social aspects -- Brazil
Agricultural industries -- Social aspects -- Brazil
Mineral industries -- Social aspects -- Brazil
Indigenous peoples -- Brazil -- Social conditions
Environmental protection -- Brazil -- Citizen participation
Political ecology -- Brazil
Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- Brazil
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
Agricultural industries -- Social aspects
Ecology
Economic development -- Environmental aspects
Economic history
Environmental protection -- Citizen participation
Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions
Mineral industries -- Social aspects
Natural resources -- Social aspects
Political ecology
SUBJECT Brazil -- Environmental conditions -- 21st century
Brazil -- Economic conditions -- 1985- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85016538
Subject Brazil
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021023626
ISBN 9781000473872
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