Intresting article, however this term was new to me hence I searched the meaning on google. The meaning was related but a bit different, I would really appreciate if you could provide some insights regarding the meaning of extractivism you used.
Google’s definition is the conventional definition. It centres on the extraction of natural resources: mining, logging, fossil fuels, agricultural monocultures. That comes mainly from Latin American political ecology and dependency theory in the 1970s and 80s.
The implicit critique from the Latin American dependencia school is that certain territories are treated as sacrifice zones whose value is exported elsewhere, leaving communities with the costs and elites elsewhere with the gains. I extend that logic beyond the physical. My use extends extractivism to describe a broader political-economic relationship in which a place, a community, or a population is treated primarily as a source of value to be captured and removed rather than as something to be invested in or reproduced. The axis on which everything turns is who benefits and who bears the costs.
Spend some time with a few of my Newsletters…I spend a lot of time clarifying the meaning particularly in housing.
Intresting article, however this term was new to me hence I searched the meaning on google. The meaning was related but a bit different, I would really appreciate if you could provide some insights regarding the meaning of extractivism you used.
Google’s definition is the conventional definition. It centres on the extraction of natural resources: mining, logging, fossil fuels, agricultural monocultures. That comes mainly from Latin American political ecology and dependency theory in the 1970s and 80s.
The implicit critique from the Latin American dependencia school is that certain territories are treated as sacrifice zones whose value is exported elsewhere, leaving communities with the costs and elites elsewhere with the gains. I extend that logic beyond the physical. My use extends extractivism to describe a broader political-economic relationship in which a place, a community, or a population is treated primarily as a source of value to be captured and removed rather than as something to be invested in or reproduced. The axis on which everything turns is who benefits and who bears the costs.
Spend some time with a few of my Newsletters…I spend a lot of time clarifying the meaning particularly in housing.