Large-scale oil and gas extraction in Algeria, phosphate mining; water-intensive agribusiness and mass tourism in Morocco and Tunisia, are all aspects of an extractivist model of development that is ...

The Indigenous Wampís people, whose territory covers more than 1.3 million hectares in Peru’s northern Amazon, are at the frontlines of extractivism and state abandonment. In 2015, they formally ...

Nonhle Mbuthuma is the spokesperson of the Amadiba Crisis Committee of the Xolobeni community. Maxine Bezuidenhout is a programme officer in the Alternatives to Extractivism and Climate Change ...

From large-scale mining, to eco-cultural pluralism, and harmful forms of conservation, the EXALT Podcast offers listeners, activists, and academics a space to explore and discuss the multiple ways ...

Argentina’s far-right president Javier Milei secured early this morning his first major win in office, with the country’s lower chamber passing the first of his landmark regressive reforms. Congress’s ...

Latin American Extractivism is a compilation of articles analysing the political economy of resource nationalism and policies of natural resource extraction by left and right-wing governments, with ...

Today’s column continues to elaborate on the meaning I am intending to attach to the three key concepts referred to in last week’s column; namely, extractivism, petrostate and happenstance. I had ...

What if the solution to climate change and environmental destruction came from the exploited countries? The policies of the Banks and the governments of Northern countries are designed to encourage ...

This EXALT book launch event on March 17th at 16-17 (UTC+2) on Zoom focuses on Gediminas Lesutis’s recently published book (Routledge) that explores how intensifying geographies of extractive ...

THE Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the richest countries in terms of natural resources, boasting vast reserves of minerals such as cobalt, copper, and diamonds. Yet, it remains one ...