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The Rise of Green Extractivism: Extractivism, Rural Livelihoods and Accumulation in a Climate-Smart World

The Rise of Green Extractivism: Extractivism, Rural Livelihoods and Accumulation in a Climate-Smart World

Bruna, Natacha

Hardcover

Series: Rethinking Globalizations

United States Politics

ISBN10: 1032398922
ISBN13: 9781032398921
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 14 2023
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The Rise of Green Extractivism tackles the understudied interconnections between extractivism and climate-smart policies and their implications for rural livelihoods, both theoretically and empirically.

This new variation of extractivism arises as an innovative way in which capitalist production and accumulation unfolds and constitutes a convenient analytical tool in today's focus on reducing or compensating for emissions. The book consolidates 'extractivism' as a theoretical framework that fully challenges contemporary capitalism's dynamics, particularly in the current global environmental crisis. It explores new dynamics of accumulation, resource grabbing and legitimation strategies. These are approached as mechanisms of appropriation of resources that produce social, economic and ecological implications to be considered in the current agrarian question debates. By analysing the implementation and outcomes of green policies, the author shows that new strategies of capital accumulation arise through the creation of new commodities, markets, vehicles of accumulation and ways of legitimising capital accumulation. A new and 'greener' frontier of accumulation is constituted. These emerging processes of commodification bring along new waves of expropriation that further cut into the necessary consumption of rural populations. Insights from empirical cases explored in this book show how this new wave of green investments and projects, directly linked to climate change concerns, are further expropriating livelihoods and fuelling capital accumulation in the name of the fight against climate change.

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