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.
University of Leipzig
National University of San Martín
Centre de Recherchers de l'Ouest Saharien
University of Cantabria
University of Giessen
Tarbiat Modares University
Autonomous University of Chile
University of Bejaia
Universidad del Pacífico
University of Buenos Aires
University of Paris Nanterre
The prevailing trend was that oil and gas were seen primarily as a matter of market mechanisms and competition rules, even if they were related
On March 29th, the dossier “Youth, politics and generations in Latin America, from the second half of the 20th century to the 21st century” was
This Extractivism Policy Brief shows: • Oil rents may affect the political regimes through influencing both defense and non-defense expenditures. • Defense expenditures are considerably
This Extractivism Policy Brief shows: • Extractivism has shaped Ecuador for the last half century. • The Yasuní initiative aimed at leaving about one fifth
Edited by Hannes Warnecke-Berger and Jan Ickler For many countries, primarily in the Global South, extractivism – the exploiting and exporting of natural resources –
This policy brief argues that Brazil has a standstill development syndrome as its development path swayed from extractivism to industrialization and back to extractivism. The
Our Post-Doctoral Researcher based at the University of Kassel, Luíza Cerioli, together with Dr. Fernanda Barasuol (Federal University of Grande Dourados) and Dr. Mariana Kalil
This Extractivism Policy Brief argues The new Colombian president Gustavo Petro pushes for a transition from an extractivist to a productive economy. He needs to
This Extractivism Policy Brief argues The European energy transition has an impact on political decisions in Chile President Boric intends to change the mining sector
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro seems to be somewhat confused on how to tackle the Ukraine-Russia conflict in a way that aligns with his interests. In
This Extractivism Policy Brief argues Extractivism is the dark side of sustainability raw materials and primary commodities are the backbones of the global economy extraction
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
We would like to share the book “Questioning the neoliberal extractivist model from the south. Capitalism, territories and resistance”. Where the postdoctoral researcher of
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
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
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