Latin American Extractivism

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 the table. This volume provides great insight at a critical moment into the nature of 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, University of California at Santa Barbara; author of The Global Police State

Steve Ellner was professor at the Universidad de Oriente, Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, and is now associate managing editor of Latin American Perspectives. His books include Latin Americas Pink Tide, Latin Americas Radical Left and Venezuela: Hugo Chavez and the Decline of an Exceptional Democracy.

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 Macas Vsquez and Jorge Garca-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-Ferrndez
5 Extractivism and Resource Nationalism in Bolivia: Foreign Direct Investment Policy and Development under Evo Morales
Mara J. Paz and Juan M. Ramrez-Cendrero
6 Extractive Policies in Mexico at the Outset of Lpez Obrador's Presidency
Darcy Tetreault
7 Tracing the Political Life of Kimsacocha: Conflicts over Water and Mining in Ecuador's Southern Andes
Teresa A. Velsquez
8 The Gendered Dimensions of Soybean Extractivism in Argentina
Amalia Leguizamn
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
Zara Toledo Orozco
11 Black Women's Struggles against Extractivism, Land Dispossession, and Marginalization in Colombia
Castriela Esther Hernndez Reyes
Index
About the Contributors