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Joseph, Sabrina

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“…This often outmanoeuvres grassroots objections and democratic objectives in a seemingly ceaseless commodification of natural resources, land, labour, and organization (Chapter 2; Tsing 2003;Borg and Lund 2018;Smith 2018). Broadly, the opening and expansion of commodity frontiers in different locations all over the world demonstrates close relationships between an increased destruction of environmental and ecological systems, labour exploitation, and the globalization of capitalist production systems (Joseph 2019). Such processes exemplify the work of the Capitalocene and the 'age of capital' where unabated destruction and accumulation, and 'putting Nature to work' organizes markets and production as a 'system of power, profit, and re/ production in the web of life' (Moore 2017, 594-606).…”

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Global Power and Local Struggles in Developing Countries: An Introduction

Stacey¹

2022

Global Power and Local Struggles in Developing Countries

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This volume explains how global political and economic power influences local struggles and social organization in diverse sites in developing, or Global South, countries. It is inspired by the fortieth anniversary -2022 -of the first publication of the seminal Europe and the People without History (epwh) by Eric R. Wolf (Wolf 1982), while 2023 marks the centenary of Wolf's birth. The title 'Europe and the People without History' immediately provokes. When published, it challenged dominant contemporary thought that history was only made by powerful Europeans and forced answers to questions like: How can people not have history? What people are we talking about? And what role do people without history play in the making of our own understandings and histories of the world? The phrase 'People without History' consequently serves to alert and chastise established understandings, which for Wolf were enacted and supported by generations of public officials, traders, opportunists, and scholars across the social sciences. This mixed group tended to share a view that people in peripheral lands -a long way away from their own perceived centres of civilization -simply did not contribute to global progress and were thus insignificant in world history. Moreover, such people were not only geographically peripheral but occupied overshadowed and lesser positions in evolutionary terms than those enjoyed by their Western counterparts -who, in turn, enjoyed the privilege of writing history from their own perspectives. The title thus directly challenged ideas of modernization and global development that remain popular today, of 'the West versus the Rest' and the 'North versus the South' , where the West and North are understood as engines of global development, while the 'Rest' need to mimic the North/ West developmental trajectory to reach desirable Northern or Western levels of 'progress' . A key aim of this volume is to challenge such perspectives with a range of original ethnographic investigations from the Global South, and to explain how local, national, and global political and economic development produces, and is dependent on, diverse groups of 'People without History' .epwh was a ground-breaking scholarly enterprise for many reasons, not least because it situated local contexts and the agency of people in peripheral

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“…There is an enormous "circularity gap". The industrial economy is not circular, it is entropic (Haas et al 2015, 2020, Giampietro and Funtowicz, 2020, therefore it requires new supplies of energy and materials extracted from the old and new "commodity frontiers" (Moore 2000, Joseph, 2019, Gerber, 2020, Hanáček et al 2021, and it produces polluting waste. Therefore ecological distribution conflicts arise.…”

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The circularity gap and the growth of world movements for environmental justice

Martínez‐Alier

2021

Academia Letters

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The EJAtlas (www.ejatlas.org) is an archive of ecological distribution conflicts (Martinez-Alier and O'Connor, 1996) that took place in the last decades or are taking place now mostly at the commodity extraction frontiers or at the waste disposal frontiers (Temper et al 2015(Temper et al , 2018. The EJAtlas is a product of the grassroots counter-movement for environmental justice, and at the same time a tool for researching its contemporary history and supporting its presence across world regions and cultures. The EJAtlas provides descriptions and coded materials for research on comparative, statistical political ecology (Scheidel et al, 2020, Tran et al., 2020, Martinez-Alier 2021. One of its main purposes is to lift the curtain of invisibility over movements for environmental justice or "liberation ecologies" (Peets and Watts, 2004) (these are names that look at the aims of the movements) or over the environmentalism of the poor and the indigenous, ecofeminism, subaltern environmentalism, the environmentalism of the dispossessed, peasant or agrarian environmentalism, working-class environmentalism, the environmentalism of "peoples of color" (names that look at the social actors).The industrial economy was still growing until 2020. Energy from the photosynthesis of the distant past, fossil fuels, is burnt and dissipated. Even without further economic growth the industrial economy would need new supplies of energy and materials extracted from the "commodity frontiers", producing also more waste (including excessive amounts of greenhouse gases). Therefore, new ecological distribution conflicts (EDC) arise all the time. We are registering them in the Atlas of Environmental Justice (ejatlas.org).Calisto Friant et al., 2020 offer a rich typology of the discourses on the circular economy. In a nutshell, the concept of 'circular economy' implies that material resources could be increasingly sourced from within the economy, reducing environmental impact by increasing the reuse and recycling of materials. However, quantitative biophysical, metabolic analysis

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