Latin American Extractivism

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.”

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.

• Foreword Juan Carlos MonederoIntroduction: Rethinking Latin American Extractivism Steve EllnerPart I: The Global Focus 1 The Political Economy of Mining in Colombia: The New Face of Globalization? Kyla Sankey2 Financialization, Institutional Reform, and Structural Change in the Bolivian Boom (2006–2019) Alfredo Macías Vásquez and Jorge García-Arias3 South-South Cooperation or Dependency with “Chinese Characteristics” in Venezuela? Emma Miriam Yin-Hang ToPart 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-Ferrández5 Extractivism and Resource Nationalism in Bolivia: Foreign Direct Investment Policy and Development under Evo Morales María J. Paz and Juan M. Ramírez-Cendrero6 Extractive Policies in Mexico at the Outset of López Obrador’s Presidency Darcy Tetreault7 Tracing the Political Life of Kimsacocha: Conflicts over Water and Mining in Ecuador’s Southern Andes Teresa A. Velásquez8 The Gendered Dimensions of Soybean Extractivism in Argentina Amalia LeguizamónPart 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 Rogan10 The Other Extractivism: The Andean State and Small-Scale and Artisanal Gold Mining Zaraí Toledo Orozco11 Black Women’s Struggles against Extractivism, Land Dispossession, and Marginalization in Colombia Castriela Esther Hernández ReyesIndex About the Contributors