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).

Chapter 1: Why Capitalist Development is Ecological Imperialism and Planetary Ecocide, and Why We Need Alternatives (Mariko Frame, Merrimack College, USA)

Chapter 2: Africana Critical Theory, Ecological Imperialism and Global Anti-Black Violence as Foundational in the Climate Crisis (Samuel Leguizamon Grant, MN350, Metropolitan State University, USA)

Chapter 3: Ecological Health and Justice Require Decolonization: Coloniality, Ecological Imperialism and Global Ecological Crises (Felix Mantz, Queen Mary University of London, UK)

NON-WESTERN ECOLOGICAL COSMOLOGIES AND WORLDVIEWS

Chapter 4: The Re-Emergence of the World of Cycles: Ceremonial Fire, Anthropocene Ashes, and the Renewal of Territories of Life (Leonardo Figueroa-Helland and Abigail Perez Aguilera, The New School, USA)

Chapter 5: Subverting Anthropocentrism and Shia Muslims: Alternatives From West Asia (Ali M. Kassem, American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

Chapter 6: Nourishing Decolonial Communities of Life: Indigenous and Afro-Indigenous Resurgences Beyond Syndemic Violence and Earth Crisis (Leonardo Figueroa Helland and Angela Martinez, in collaboration with Neftalí Reyes Mendez and Angélica Castro Rodríguez (Zapotec and Mixtec of Oaxaca), Juan José Lopez Negrete (Zenue and Afro-descendant) and Mileida Correa (Zenue), José Gualinga (Kichwa of Sarayaku), Stephanie Morningstar (Kanien’kehá:ka, Wakeniáhten), and Çaca Yvaire (Atakapa Ishak)

RESISTANCES AND STRATEGIES

Chapter 7: Racial Capitalism, Eco-Apartheid and the Necessity of Fundamental Social Change (Rose Brewer, University of Minnesota, USA)

Chapter 8: Interview with Cambodian Deforestation Activists Ouch Leng

Chapter 9: Participatory Video is a Revolutionary Tool! (Samwel Nangiria, Ngorongoro NGO Network and Nick Lunch, Co-InsightShare)

Chapter 10: Making Local Agency Visible: How Local Communities Resisted Large-Scale Land Transactions in Liberia (Ali Kaba, University of Washington, USA)

ALTERNATIVES AND SOLUTIONS FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH

Chapter 11: Evaluating Results and Transformative Potentials in Social Movement Praxis (Samuel Leguizamon Grant, MN350, Metropolitan State University, USA)

Chapter 12: The Pathalgadi Movement Of Jharkhand, India: A Case Study in Indigenous Revolt Beyond the Terms of Conventional Politics (Pratik Raghu, University of California Santa Barbara, USA)

Chapter 13: RISE and Treaty Rights Discourse in Northern Minnesota (Nancy Beaulieu, RISE Coalition and Dawn Goodwin, RISE Coalition)

Chapter 14: Poetry as Praxis for Resistance (Kahnapad Haider (Haider A. Khan), University of Denver, USA)

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