From extractivism to global extractivism: the evolution of an organizing concept

Chagnon, Christopher W.; Durante, Francesco; Gills, Barry; Hagolani-Albov, Sophia; Hokkanen, Sanna; Kangasluoma, Sohvi; Konttinen, Heidi; Kröger, Markus; LaFleur, Will; Ollinaho, Ossi; Vuola, Marketta

doi:10.1080/03066150.2022.2069015

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“…Recently, new approaches have labeled extractivism a globally applicable concept and linked it to capitalism, economic growth, and unsustainability: these approaches include studies of mining or forestry activities in Canada and Finland (Kröger 2020 ; Stammler and Wilson 2016 ; Willow 2019 ), and emphasize perspectives on the overall extractivist logic of abstract energy (Dunlap and Jakobsen 2020 ) and on the industrial, large-scale extraction of renewable resources in industrial agriculture (McKay 2017 ; Tittor 2021 ) or forestry (Ehrnström-Fuentes and Kröger 2018 ). While so far not in the focus of these studies, the pulp industry in Finland is a named example (Chagnon et al 2022 ). From an anthropological-historical perspective, extractivism is studied as a socially dominant and destructive mindset “in which long-term environmental consequences are ignored” (Willow 2019 , p. 2).…”

Section: Extractivist Tendencies and Patterns As A Heuristicmentioning

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Threatened sustainability: extractivist tendencies in the forest-based bioeconomy in Finland

Holz

2023

Sustain Sci

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Bioeconomy is portrayed by the EU and several national governments as a central element contributing to sustainability strategies and a post-fossil transformation. This paper critically engages with extractivist patterns and tendencies in the forest sector as one of the main bio-based sectors. It argues that despite the official endorsement of circularity and renewability in the forest-based bioeconomy, current developments of modern bioeconomy might threaten sustainability prospects. The Finnish forest-based bioeconomy and one of its well-known showcase projects, the bioproduct mill (BPM) in the municipality of Äänekoski, serve as a case study in this paper. The forest-based bioeconomy in Finland is scrutinized as a potential continuation or consolidation of extractivist patterns, rather than an alternative to these tendencies. The lens of extractivism is applied to identify possible extractivist and unsustainable characteristics of the case study which are discussed along the following dimensions: (A) degree of export orientation and processing, (B) the scale, scope, and speed of extraction, (C) socio-economic and environmental impacts, and (D) subjective relations to nature. The extractivist lens provides analytical value to scrutinizing practices, principles, and dynamics of the contested political field and vision of bioeconomy in the Finnish forest sector. The analysis results in a discussion of latent and manifest social, political, and ecological contradictions within the forest-based bioeconomy in Finland. Based on its analytical lens and the empirical case of the BPM in Äänekoski, it can be concluded that extractivist patterns and tendencies are perpetuated within the Finnish forest-based bioeconomy.

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Section: Extractivist Tendencies and Patterns As A Heuristicmentioning

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Threatened sustainability: extractivist tendencies in the forest-based bioeconomy in Finland

Holz

2023

Sustain Sci

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“…There is no clear or consistent definition of depletion, but it is a concept that lays at the core of key dominant definitions of extractivism (see, e.g., Chagnon et al, 2022). It is referred to as a relation of "extraction without replenishment" that is at the core of capitalisms' social-ecological crises (Acosta, 2013).…”

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Furious depletion—Conceptualizing artisan mining and extractivism through gender, race, and environment

Côte¹

2023

Front. Hum. Dyn.

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A buoyant debate has grown in political ecology and agrarian studies around the concept of extractivism. It shines a light on forms of human and non-human depletion that fuel contemporary capitalism. Within this debate however, artisan mining has been hard to fit in. Artisan mining is a form of small scale mineral extraction that occupies around 45 million people around the world, and sustains the life of many more, especially in the Global South. Much research has looked at this expanding form of livelihood, particularly through the prism of its persistent informality, its labor organization, and its challenges to environmental and labor rights. However, it has not been well-theorized in relations to extractivism, sitting uncomfortably with dominant categories such as “the community”, “the company”, and “social movements” in political ecology analyses. The paper maps out entry points to studying the significance of artisan mining within dynamics of extractive capitalism by bringing in conversation political ecology scholarship on extractivism and research on artisan mining through a feminist lens. It develops the notions of “furious depletion”, attempting to capture the stark socioenvironmental injustice through which artisan mining forms an integral part of extractive capitalism, as both a victim and fuel thereof. The notion also emphasizes the significance of emotions - such as infuriation - in thinking through unjust human-environment relations for transformation. It focuses specifically on the ways relations of gender and race mediate human-environment relations, can help clarify an understanding of artisan mining in the depletion dynamics underlying extractivism. Given the acceleration of mining as part of digital and energy transitions, and the expansion of artisan mining, an engaged conceptualization of artisan mining may support struggles away from extractive capitalism for the decades to come.

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“…On the riparian communities’ scale, there are complex societal interactions that differ from one locality to another which are “simplified” and shifted or integrated into a national larger scale (Lebel et al, 2005). The three countries under study here operate as capitalist states that entangle infrastructure, technology, property arrangements, and intervention with violence to extract recourses, accumulate capital, and alienate the poor/peasants from their endowments (Chagnon et al, 2022).…”

Section: Agrarian Question In the Blue Nile: Colonial And National Po...mentioning

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Heterogeneity of Water Justice and the Question of Nile Solidarity

Abazeed

2023

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy: A triannual Journ

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This article analyses the recent contestation over the Nile River due to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and its implications for the agrarian question and water justice. The article focuses on the commodification of the Nile by national governments, whereby technology, rationality, and regulations have become the driving force of the river’s development. The engagement of civil society actors in the GERD dispute reveals several perceptions of “riverhood” of the Nile. As a result, water justice is heterogeneous and challenges building a wide-basin movement.

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From extractivism to global extractivism: the evolution of an organizing concept

Cited by 104 publications

References 165 publications

Threatened sustainability: extractivist tendencies in the forest-based bioeconomy in Finland

Threatened sustainability: extractivist tendencies in the forest-based bioeconomy in Finland

Furious depletion—Conceptualizing artisan mining and extractivism through gender, race, and environment

Heterogeneity of Water Justice and the Question of Nile Solidarity

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