CASAS’ member Natalia Landívar has published this article with Lynne Phillips in the Journal of Agrarian Change. Abstract: This article examines how campesinas in coastal Ecuador have navigated shifting labour roles, financial precarity and ecological degradation under Plan Tierras, a state-led land redistribution policy embedded in an extractivist model of agriculture. While Plan Tierras formally recognized women as land beneficiaries,…
Tag: Extractivism
Indigenous Rights to Land Versus Extractivism: The Promise and Limits of ILO Convention No. 169 in Mexico
Tamara Wattnem, CASAS’ member, has published this article in Elements in Indigenous Environmental Research. Abstract: Indigenous and tribal communities often make claims to territory citing their longstanding ties to the land. Since 1989, they increasingly reference ILO Convention No. 169, the only legally binding international agreement on Indigenous and tribal peoples rights. This Element proposes…
Resistance to extractivism: pin-prick land grabs and ‘failed’corporate land deals
Lorenza Arango, Sai Sam Khan, Doi Ra, Itayosara Rojas, Yunan Xu, CASAS’ members, have published an article in Third World Quarterly with Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Moges Belay, Jennifer C. Franco, Tsegaye Moreda & Chunyu Wang. Abstract: Resistance to extractivist land grabs is diverse in character and trajec-tory, at least those in Colombia, Ethiopia, Myanmar…
The political ecology of oil and gas corporations: TotalEnergies and post-colonial exploitation to concentrate energy in industrial economies
Grettel Navas has published with Marcel Llavero-Pasquina, Roberto Cantoni & Joan Martínez-Alier n Energy Research & Social Science. Abstract: Industrial economies require a steady supply of energy to reproduce and grow. Oil and gas companies fulfil that socio-economic function by constantly finding, extracting and transporting energy sources. The steady extraction and concentration of fossil resources…
“We are protectors, not protestors”: global impacts of extractivismon human–nature bonds
CASAS’ member, Grettel Navas, has published an article with Ksenija Hanaček, Dalena Tran, Arielle Landau, Teresa Sanz, May Aye Thiri, Daniela Del Bene, Juan Liu, Mariana Walter, Aida Lopez, Brototi Roy, Eleonora Fanari & Joan Martinez-Alier in Sustainable Science. Abstract: This article analyzes the global impacts of extractivism on human–nature bonds. To do so, we…





