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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Extractivism"”.
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Aerial Captures: Extractivism and the Logistical Media of Air Travel in Postwar Canada
… governmentality. In this thesis, I outline how extractivism entails the negation of place-based relationality, and its replacement with the relationality of logistics and the world-system. This portfolio thesis takes the form of standalone chapters framed by an introduction and a conclusion, and …
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Extractivism and the Defense of Life and Territories: An Account of Latin American Environmental Thought
… thought, I argue, are the concepts of extractivism, the defense of life and territories, and alternatives. I devote one chapter of the dissertation to each of these concepts, explaining their history and applications. These three concepts together articulate a vision of environmentalism …
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Degrowth at a Global Scale? Geographies of Chile¿s Fruit Production and Export between Extractivism and Socio-Ecological Transformation
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Reclaiming "Tubuh-Tanah Air": A Life Project on Doing Feminist Political Ecology at the Capitalist Frontier
… configuration of the capitalist frontier through extractivism shapes ethnicity, gender, and intersectionality in the areas surrounding a nickel mine in Sorowako (East Luwu District, South Sulawesi), logging and coal mining along the Lalang River (Murung Raya District, Central Kalimantan) …
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The North Woods: An Environmental History from the Pleistocene to the Pyrocene
… Woods might better be characterized as settler extractivism. Extractive industries beginning in the fur trade informed the shape of Euro-American presence in the region for centuries, long before any large-scale white settlement efforts began. Furthermore, while Native peoples in the North Woods …
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Ecologia come paradigma di resistenza. Il paesaggio minerario di Sardegna: Environmental criticism in aree industriali dismesse
… of socio-ecological injustice. It argues that extractivism should not be conceived solely as an economic phenomenon, but also as a manifestation of internal colonialism, profoundly shaping cultural identity and undermining environmental sustainability. Within this framework, literature is …
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Sertransneja: identidade de gênero e migração na arte
… as opposed to the impacts of agribusiness and extractivism.
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Green Expectations: Politics of the Environment in Pink Tide Bolivia
… environmental record – especially its record of extractivism. The Morales government ultimately fell to a coup following contested elections in 2019, events that are widely viewed as marking the end of the Pink Tide’s political arc. In this dissertation, I present an ethnographic investigation of …
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On the Ethics and Linguistic Impacts of Using the Bible as Training Data for Yucatec Maya-to-Spanish Machine Translation
… training data, and the risk of epistemic extractivism. Together, the computational and community findings argue that domain-matched, community-generated data should be prioritized over Bible corpora in low-resource MT development, even when data scarcity creates pressure to use all …
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Precarity and Resilience: An Ecofeminist Reading of the African Child in Fiction by Contemporary Women Writers
… of the child as a consequence of neo-liberal extractivism and toxic colonialism? (2) What ecological points of crisis as a consequence of neo-imperial exploitation in Africa do these novels expose and condemn? (3) In what ways are narrative structure, point of view, characterisation, setting …
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Subterranean governance: The political work of artisanal miners in the northern Peruvian Andes
… visible, the dissertation reveals a ‘people’s extractivism’ that enriches and complicates conventional interpretations of artisanal and small-scale mining. In doing so, it broadens our understanding of artisanal miners’ politics by situating them beyond their usual portrayal as anti-state and …
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“Eles Deturpam o Que Tu És”: Coloniality, resistance, and the reconfiguration of colonial power in Quilombos of Amapá, Brazil
… to demonstrate how colonial logics of isolation, extractivism, and silencing persist under the banner of development and conservation. A decolonial and interpretive methodology combining qualitative semi-structured interviews was employed to answer three interrelated questions: (1) How have …
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Conflict And Solidarity Between Anti-Colonial Environmentalism, Indigenous Anti-Pipeline Resistance, And The Labour
… colonialism in Canada revolves today around extractivism. This fact makes the struggle for land critical and highlights how Canadian nationalism is an obstacle to Indigenous solidarity and environmentalism. In 2020, the Shut Down Canada movement that started from Wet'suwet'en territories …
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Toward a Curatorial Praxis of Planetarity
… and curatorial research in the context of ocean extractivism. Tidalectics (2017–18) looks at poet Kamau Brathwaite’s eponymous connective neologism inspired by the movement of the waves, evoking the Middle Passage as well as climate change. Sensing Nature (2021–22), the Momenta Biennale, centers …
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The Traces of Mining Activities in Riverscapes—a Lyrical and Performative Art-based Approach
… red river. Rivers bear witness to the wounds of extractivism. Walking with them becomes both an act of attention and a return to our fluid nature. Water flows through us, shaping how we live, feel, and remember. In their movements, we find echoes of ourselves, beings bound to a shared body of …
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'Not Infinite Enough': Experimental British Poetics, Industrial Ecology and Scarcity, 1969-Present
… existing humanities scholarship on cultures of extractivism, which typically centres the ‘petroscapes’ of fossil fuel extraction and combustion in discussions of resource exhaustion. As I show here, however, it is these less obvious sites of ‘industrial ecology’ (Tsing) which have compelled …
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Vihreä ekstraktivismi osana uuskolonialismia: maailmanjärjestelmäteoreettinen katsaus vihreään siirtymään
Tutkielmassani tarkastelen, miten ekstraktivismi eli luonnonvarojen intensiivinen vieminen, erityisesti vihreän siirtymän tarpeisiin toimii keinona toteuttaa uuskolonialistista hallintaa globaalia etelää kohtaan. Tarkastelu etenee ekstraktivismista sen rinnalle kehittyneeseen vihreään …
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Extracting Intelligence and (In)security: Corporate-state Information-sharing Practices and the Construction of Narratives of Indigenous Dissent
This thesis aims to examine how narratives of Indigenous land defense movements are constituted by investigating natural resource extraction corporations and Canadian intelligence and national security agencies joint participation in information-sharing practices. I consider a specific set of …
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Distribuição geográfica dos fitofármacos no campos I da UFPB.
It is known that until today, the Atlantic Forrest has been the goal of constant aggressions from men, each time these impacts has taken the bio life to the point of collapse for the intensity that these attacks has occurred. The native medicinal plants of Atlantic Forrest are being removed from …
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Renegotiating communal autonomy: communal land rights and liberal land reform on the Bolivian altiplano: Carangas, 1860-1930
… of colonial exploitation and post-colonial extractivism entails a remarkable (yet over the centuries increasingly more defied) “margin” for the safeguarding of communal land control. Why could such rights be preserved in certain regions? How were these rights safeguarded throughout cycles of …
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