THE PROJECT
NATURAL RESOURCE EXTRACTIVISM IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE MAGHREB
extractivism.de is a collaborative research project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The project investigates natural resource extractivism in Latin America and the Maghreb.
Natural resources and raw materials are among the most important lubricants of the global economy. Many countries in the Global South have specialized in the extraction and export of raw materials and natural resources – extractivism – and Latin America and the Maghreb are critical examples of this development model. Within our project, we scrutinize the many crisis scenarios, socio-economic contexts, resilience and transformative potentials for development models based on extractivism in Latin America and the Maghreb.
We do not simply conduct research on, but with regions outside of Europe.
Our project combines:
Social Research in and together with the Global South

International Research Network and Fellows

Transfer of Research Findings into Politics and Society

ACTIVITIES
Participation at the International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) 2022
Online Discussion May 11th: Bringing Structural Analysis Back in a World of Pessimism
Extractivism Policy Brief 2/2022 – Out Now!
Fellows

FELLOW PROGRAM
INTERNATIONAL GUEST RESEARCHERS
The work of the research team is supported and strengthened by an international fellow program. Here we will inform you about project fellows as well as call for applications.
PUBLICATIONS
Click for an overview of the project publications:
Extractivism Policy Brief 2/2022 – Out Now!
Extractivism Policy Brief 1/2022 – Out Now!
Book: Entanglements of the Maghreb: Cultural and Political Aspects of a Region in Motion
Book: Questioning the neoliberal extractivist model from the south. Capitalism, territories and resistance
Book: Re-Configurations. Contextualizing Transformation Processes and Lasting Crises in the Middle East and North Africa

Book: Entanglements of the Maghreb: Cultural and Political Aspects of a Region in Motion
The impulse for the recent transformations in the Arab world came from the Maghreb. Research on the region has been on the rise since, yet

Book: Questioning the neoliberal extractivist model from the south. Capitalism, territories and resistance
We would like to share the book “Questioning the neoliberal extractivist model from the south. Capitalism, territories and resistance”. Where the postdoctoral researcher of

Book: Re-Configurations. Contextualizing Transformation Processes and Lasting Crises in the Middle East and North Africa
This edited volume is an open access title and assembles both the historical consciousness and transformation of the MENA region in various disciplinary and topical

Nada dura para siempre: Neo-extractivismo tras el boom de las materias primas
In the wake of high world market prices at the beginning of the 21st century, many commodity exporting states experienced an enormous economic boom. In
Team

Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Burchardt
Principal Investigator

Prof. Dr. Rachid Ouaissa
Principal Investigator