Latin American Extractivism: Dependency, Resource Nationalism, and Resistance in Broad Perspective

by Steve Ellner author of Rethinking Vene (Editor)

Overview

This cutting-edge book presents a broad picture of global capitalism and extractivism in contemporary Latin America. Leading scholars examine the cultural patterns involving gender, ethnicity, and class that lie behind protests in opposition to extractivist projects and the contrast in responses from state actors to those movements.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538141564
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	12/07/2020
Series:	Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.13(w) x 8.99(h) x 0.65(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Steve Ellner is a retired professor at the Universidad de Oriente, Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, and is currently associate managing editor of Latin American Perspectives. His books include Rethinking Venezuelan Politics and his edited Latin America’s Pink Tide, Latin America’s Radical Left, and (coedited) Venezuela: Hugo Chavez and the Decline of an “Exceptional Democracy.”

Table of Contents

Foreword

Juan Carlos Monedero

Introduction: Rethinking Latin American Extractivism

Steve Ellner

Part I: The Global Focus

1 The Political Economy of Mining in Colombia: The New Face of Globalization?

Kyla Sankey

2 Financialization, Institutional Reform, and Structural Change in the Bolivian Boom (2006–2019)

Alfredo Macías Vásquez and Jorge García-Arias

3 South-South Cooperation or Dependency with “Chinese Characteristics” in Venezuela?

Emma Miriam Yin-Hang To

Part II: The Pink Tide Countries

4 Reframing Resource Nationalism: Social Forces and the Politics of Extractivism in Latin America’s Pink Tide

Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández

5 Extractivism and Resource Nationalism in Bolivia: Foreign Direct Investment Policy and Development under Evo Morales

María J. Paz and Juan M. Ramírez-Cendrero

6 Extractive Policies in Mexico at the Outset of López Obrador’s Presidency

Darcy Tetreault

7 Tracing the Political Life of Kimsacocha: Conflicts over Water and Mining in Ecuador’s Southern Andes

Teresa A. Velásquez

8 The Gendered Dimensions of Soybean Extractivism in Argentina

Amalia Leguizamón

Part III: Conservative and Right-Wing Governments

9 Mining Governance in El Salvador and Honduras: Lessons from Contrasting Approaches to Extractivism

Anthony Bebbington, Benjamin Fash, and John Rogan

10 The Other Extractivism: The Andean State and Small-Scale and Artisanal Gold Mining

Zaraí Toledo Orozco

11 Black Women’s Struggles against Extractivism, Land Dispossession, and Marginalization in Colombia

Castriela Esther Hernández Reyes

Index

About the Contributors

Editorial Reviews

Latin American Extractivism is organized in a way that is easy to read and ideal for classroom use.. . Ellner’s book is another successful publication of the Latin American Perspective in the Classroom series. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the complexities of the relationship between the extractive sector and development in Latin America in the age of globalization.

North American Congress in Latin America

Steve Ellner and his colleagues have produced a timely and invaluable study on the political and economic balance sheet of the extractivist strategy of development in Latin America. The varied contributions show that there was no one model of extractivism. Rather, the process has been highly contested and differentiated among Latin American countries, in particular, among left-oriented governments who pursued resources nationalism and the more conservative regimes who allied with global capital and followed a more openly neoliberal path. The collection of essays, beyond the specific focus on extractivism, provides an essential guide to making sense of Latin America’s recent past and possible futures. As global capitalism now sinks into its worse crisis in a century, all bets are off. This volume provides great insight at a critical moment into the nature of the dynamics of global capitalism, as well as the choices before us as we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century.

William I. Robinson

This well-crafted volume offers fresh perspectives on increasingly dogmatic, closed debates over extractive development. It convincingly argues against tarring all models of extractive development with the same brush. If we focus on the broad distributive consequences of contending approaches to extractive development, then progressive/left approaches versus international capital-centered variants are, simply put, not the same.

Eduardo Silva

Insightful.. .. [An] important contribution to our understanding of the political, economic and cultural dynamics of extractivism in Latin America.

E-International Relations

This volume stands out for bringing to the forefront less wellknown facets and struggles related to extractivism in Latin America. Latin American Extractivism thus provides a rich and detailed panorama of the role of extractivist development policies during a time of retreat for the Pink Tide governments in Latin America.

Socialism and Democracy

A much-needed contribution to the debate over extractivist development models and the ability of leftist governments in Latin America to transform them Steve Ellner and his contributors demonstrate how state-directed policies of resource nationalism differ from those of neoliberal extractivism, and they examine the implications of these policies for the environment, social welfare, and indigenous rights.The book is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand how states have experimented with alternative models of economic development in Latin America, even within the constraints of global capitalism.

Kenneth M. Roberts

The authors successfully demonstrate that not all extractivist models are the same by looking at the connections between resource nationalism and social and economic politics. It will be an excellent addition to courses in Latin American Political Economy.

Hispanic American Historical Review

Latin American Extractivism creates somewhat of a perfect balance between the achievements of the Pink Tide governments in the use of nationalisation of natural resources and the policies of resource nationalism, the contradictions, and shortcomings of these processes, on the one hand, and the conservative extractivist policies and state coercion exercised by the neoliberal governments of the region, on the other hand. The book serves as a strong answer to both the pessimistic approach of the ‘neo-extractivism’ crowd and its unbalanced criticism of the new left-wing governments around Latin America, as well as those who completely embrace the Pink Tide with no acknowledgment for the contradictions and the mistakes it has committed.

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