Contested Extractivism, Society and the State: An Introduction

Dietz, Kristina; Engels, Bettina

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“…The varied political character of local struggles against resource extraction has been an important focus of existing research. Studies point to the crucial role of project or sector-specific characteristics, political opportunity structures and cross/multi-scalar alliances in shaping strategies, discourses and outcomes of resistance to large-scale mining projects (Conde and Le Billon 2017;Dietz and Engels 2017;Prause and Le Billon 2021;Temper et al 2020). Others emphasize the distinctive dynamics of resource governance and politics that tend to emerge within sub-national 'extractive regimes' and 'political settlements' linked to mining (Adhikari and Chhotray 2020;Bebbington et al 2018, 12).…”

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Rethinking ‘just transitions’ from coal: the dynamics of land and labour in anti-coal struggles

Shah

2022

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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Communities resisting large coal mining projects navigate the significant tensions between imperatives of urgent climate action and economic growth in complex and contingent ways. Drawing on empirical research in a mining region of Central-Eastern India, this paper examines how the changing 'agrarian' context of rural livelihoods and household reproduction within mining-affected communities shapes the motivations of local anti-coal struggles, and the articulation of climate-change related concerns within them. It argues that such a conceptualization of political contestations over coal extraction points to crucial possibilities for building broader counter-hegemonic movements for more inclusive 'just transitions' away from coal.

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Rethinking ‘just transitions’ from coal: the dynamics of land and labour in anti-coal struggles

Shah

2022

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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“…The result is an unequal distribution of benefits and costs: The actors at the upper end of the production process (in the rich countries) gain the lion's share of the profits, while the lower end that provides the primary resources earns much less [29]. As mentioned in the case of lithium, local communities bear a whole series of negative consequences from environmental degradation [30,31] to social conflict as well as economic crisis and political instability [32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]. Other examples in this area involve the large-scale production of so called "superfoods" popular among environmentally minded individuals in the Global North, such as quinoa, açai, and avocados.…”

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The Global Knowledge Value Chain on Sustainability: Addressing Fragmentations through International Academic Partnerships

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While research on universities’ role in sustainability transitions has flourished in recent years, explorations into the potential of academic internationalization for the promotion of sustainability transitions are still rare. This article aims at contributing to this incipient literature by emphasizing an underexplored property of international academic networks and transnational academic cooperation: their potential to break disciplinary and geographical barriers in the global debates on how transitions towards sustainability can be achieved. When realizing this potential, international partnerships are able to provide more comprehensive knowledge to inform sustainability transitions while shaping sustainability transitions in various places at the same time. This article pursues three objectives: First, it introduces the concept of the “global knowledge value chain on sustainability” and explores its value as a heuristic to understand global knowledge production relevant for sustainability transitions. Furthermore, it identifies two fragmentations in this chain resulting from global inequalities and specific dynamics within the global science community. Second, it confirms empirically the fragmentations of this global knowledge value chain on sustainability. Third, it provides good practice ideas on how international academic partnerships can overcome these fragmentations by drawing on the authors’ experience with the international partnership “trAndeS—Postgraduate Program on Social Inequalities and Sustainable Development in the Andean Region” carried out by the Institute of Latin American Studies of Freie Universität Berlin and the Department of Social Sciences of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru (PUCP).

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“…Beside the need for structural change, there is emerging international evidence that the accumulating costs and injustices imposed by the extractive industries and other profit-seeking activities are outcomes of deliberately exploitative socio-political structures and systemic failures in the capacity to imagine the world otherwise (Dietz & Engels, 2017). For example, in Canada-a country with strong similarities and links to Australia-the last conservative government was attempting programmatic reconstruction of the 'relationship between civil society and the natural environment', not to put Canada on a more sustainable basis, but to extend the dominant extractive logic and maximise 'the inherent extractive potential of Canadian resources' (Peyton & Franks, 2016, p.3).…”

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Contesting coal and climate change using scale: emergent topologies in the Adani mine controversy

Jolley

Rickards

2019

Geographical Research

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Key insightsPro-mine and anti-mine coalitions are contesting the Adani mine using arguments situated at different spatial scales. The anti-mine coalition is more adept at negotiating and contesting different scalar relations. The research highlights the need to attend to how scalar tactics are used in resource extraction controversies. AbstractThe Adani mine controversy is a significant new space of contestation in conflicts over coal mining and climate change in Australia. Proposed as one of the largest new coal mines in the world, the Adani (or "Carmichael") mine has become a flashpoint between two broad coalitions-the pro-mine coalition, consisting of governments, elements of the media, and mining interests, and the anti-mine coalition, consisting of community groups, environmental non-government organisations, activists, Indigenous communities, and farmers. Based on thematic analysis of news media articles and interviews with environmental actors in the Adani mine controversy, this article demonstrates how each coalition employs discursive scale frames and counter-scale frames to represent and contest the controversy. We find that the pro-mine coalition remains situated within a topographical spatiality, with a backwards oriented temporality, that obscures emergent topologies from their view. In contrast, while retaining capacity for operating within traditional scalar topographies, the anti-mine coalition is more adept at negotiating topologies that increasingly define our social worlds. It is oriented towards a deep future horizon in which the Adani mine controversy represents an opportunity to reshape existing social and political orders. The sorts of scalar tactics documented here are likely at work in other resource extraction controversies, highlighting the need to attend to how scale may be being used to obscure irrationalities and injustices in extraction projects, and the potential for counter-scale frames to help destabilise fossil fuel regimes.

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Contested Extractivism, Society and the State: An Introduction

Cited by 19 publications

References 31 publications

Rethinking ‘just transitions’ from coal: the dynamics of land and labour in anti-coal struggles

Rethinking ‘just transitions’ from coal: the dynamics of land and labour in anti-coal struggles

The Global Knowledge Value Chain on Sustainability: Addressing Fragmentations through International Academic Partnerships

Contesting coal and climate change using scale: emergent topologies in the Adani mine controversy

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