Grassroots Responses to Extractivism

Mariko Frame is an international political economist whose research focuses on critical political economy perspectives on the environment. She is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Merrimack College in Massachusetts, USA. Samuel Grant has been an organizer working through the intersections of environmental, economic, racial, gender and cultural justice for decades. Since 1990 he has been on faculty at Metropolitan State University, USA, where he created the Minor in Community Organizing and Development. He currently leads MN350 as Executive Director. He is also a fellow of the Institute of the Environment, University of Minnesota, USA. Felix Mantz is a doctoral researcher and teaching associate at Queen Mary University of London, UK. His doctoral thesis examines persisting colonial relations to land and ecologies in Tanzania by drawing on a variety of methods, including archival research and interviews. His latest work can be found in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE), Review of International Political Economy (RIPE), and Journal of International Relations and Development (JIRD).

List of Illustrations

I Introduction
Framing Socio-ecological Crises in the World-System: Living Histories and Deep Structures - Mariko Frame and Felix Mantz
Coming Home - Haider Khan

II Existing Struggles
1. The Pathalgadi Movement of Jharkhand, India: Three Theses on Indigenous Rebellion at the Limits of Liberal Democratic Politics - Pratik Raghu
2. Challenging Hegemonic Water Governance: Ontological Plurality in Sikkim, India - Dawa Yangi Sherpa
3. Scoping Coercive Technologies of Extraction: Lessons from Struggles against Land Grabbing in Tanzania - Felix Mantz
4. Participatory Video Is a Revolutionary Tool! - Samwel Nangiria and Nick Lunch
5. Between the Forbidden Forests: Conservation in the Krahn-Bassa Proposed Protected Areas (KPPAs) in Liberia - Ali D. Kaba and Baba Sillah
6. The Boeung Kak Lake Evictions and the Experience of Women in Cambodian Land Dispossessions - Mariko Frame
7. Community-Led Activism in Cambodia’s Prey Lang Forest - Narith Nou, Mariko Frame, Felix Mantz, and Sam Grant

III Pluriversal Perspectives for and beyond Resistance
8. Nourishing Communal Territories of Life: Indigenous and Afro-Indigenous Resurgences beyond Earth Crisis - Leonardo Figueroa Helland, Angela Martinez, Neftalí Reyes Mendez, Angélica Castro Rodríguez, Juan José López Negrete, Mileida Correa, José Gualinga, and Çaca Yvaire

9. Lifting up the Liberation Praxis of Africana Indigenous Peoples, Peasants, and Urban Slum Survivors - Samuel Leguizamon Grant
10. Racial Capitalism, Imperialism, Eco-Apartheid, and the Necessity of Fundamental Social Change - Rose M. Brewer
11. Estranged in Urban Beirut: Anthropocentric Ecological Destruction, Mysticist Shia Islam, and Epistemological Alternatives - Ali Kassem
12. Affective Multispecies Resistance as Radical Imaginations - Abigail Pérez Aguilera

IV Conclusion
Connecting Struggles: Final Reflections and Key Insights Felix Mantz and Mariko Frame

Notes on Contributors
Index