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.
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
Extractivism Talks #5: Development and Extractivism: Challenges in the 21st Century
Participation in the workshop „Limits of The Development Paradigm – Sustainability and Postcoloniality as Challenges”
Report Extractivism Flying Academy 2023 in Tunisia
Fellows

Eva Paus
Mount Holyoke College (USA)

Daniel Agramont Lechín
Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung Bolivien (Bolivia)

Guillermo Guzmán
Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (Bolivia)

Hajer Chakroun Ben Jelloul
University of Tunis El Manar (Tunisia)

Mourad Ben Jelloul
University of Tunis (Tunisia)

Samir Bellal
University Mouloud Mammeri de Tizi-Ouzou (Algeria)

Brahim Jaziri
University of Tunis (Tunisia)

Luis Bértola
University of the Republic (Uruguay)

Bruno Milanez
Federal University of Juiz de Fora (Brazil)

Manuel Sutherland
Central University of Venezuela (Republic of Venezuela)

Felix Dorn
University of Vienna (Austria)

Luis Miguel Galindo Paliza
National Autonomous University of Mexico (México)
Click for an overview of the project publications:
New article: Warnecke-Berger, H., Burchardt, H.‑J., & Dietz, K. (2023). The Failure of (Neo-)Extractivism in Latin America – Explanations and Future Challenges. Third World Quarterly, 44(8), 1825–1843.
New book: ¿De la sustentabilidad al desarrollo? Entre el extractivismo verde y la transformación socioambiental
The Socio-economic Dynamics of Algeria’s Hirak Protests: An Overlooked Factor
Extractivism as an obstacle to innovation and technology transfer: The case of Algeria
Argentina in the context of the global socioenvironmental crisis: More agro-extractivism to get out of the extractivist problem?
Authoritarian escalation in Peru: Extractivism, racial discrimination and democracy

New article: Warnecke-Berger, H., Burchardt, H.‑J., & Dietz, K. (2023). The Failure of (Neo-)Extractivism in Latin America – Explanations and Future Challenges. Third World Quarterly, 44(8), 1825–1843.
The article scrutinises the failure of neo-extractivism in Latin America. Parallel to the global super cycle of commodity prices, many Latin American governments turned to

New book: ¿De la sustentabilidad al desarrollo? Entre el extractivismo verde y la transformación socioambiental
Hans-Jürgen Burchardt, Cecilia Gárgano, Lucas Christel Are we confronted with a total environmental breakdown, or can we avoid it? What are the planetary boundaries of

The Socio-economic Dynamics of Algeria’s Hirak Protests: An Overlooked Factor
This Extractivism Policy Brief 09/2023 shows: • In 2019, Algeria experienced one of the largest popular uprisings the country has ever seen in its post-independence

Extractivism as an obstacle to innovation and technology transfer: The case of Algeria
This Extractivism Policy Brief 8/2023 shows • The paper analyzes the lack of cooperation between universities and companies in Algeria. • There is a lack

Argentina in the context of the global socioenvironmental crisis: More agro-extractivism to get out of the extractivist problem?
This Extractivism Policy Brief 7/2023 shows: • Agro-extractivism has shaped the productive matrix during the last four decades in Argentina. • Agro-extractivism not only does

Authoritarian escalation in Peru: Extractivism, racial discrimination and democracy
This Extractivism Policy Brief 6/2023 shows •The current political crisis in Peru manifests long-standing social discontent over historical ethnic, class and environmentalinequalities that are largely

Gold Mining (artisanal gold mining): Is it an engine of development in Mauritania?
This Extractivism Policy Brief 5/2023 shows • In 2021, Mauritania exported approximately 13 million tons of iron, 20% of which was bound for Western Europe.

Environmental Tax Reform in Latin America
Humanity faces one of the most significant challenges in its history. The world must rapidly move toward decarbonized economies that minimize natural resource use to

Petropolitics
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

“New Generations and Leaders to Power: from the student movement of 2011 to the first government of the Frente Amplio in 2022”
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

Does Political Resource Curse Really Exist? Evidence from the rentier states in the Greater Middle East
This Extractivism Policy Brief shows: • Oil rents may affect the political regimes through influencing both defense and non-defense expenditures. • Defense expenditures are considerably

Energy Transition-Quo Vadis – Revisiting Supply-Side Policies in Ecuador
This Extractivism Policy Brief shows: • Extractivism has shaped Ecuador for the last half century. • The Yasuní initiative aimed at leaving about one fifth

The Political Economy of Extractivism. Global Perspectives on the Seduction of Rent
Edited by Hannes Warnecke-Berger and Jan Ickler For many countries, primarily in the Global South, extractivism – the exploiting and exporting of natural resources –

Brazilian Development at a Standstill? Perspectives and Challenges for the New Lula Government
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

Special Issue: The Global South and its Perspectives: Expanding the Frontiers of International Relations
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

Colombia and the Coalition of the Pacto Histórico: From Extractivism to a Productive Economy?
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

Transformation or persistence of the extractivist model? The challenges for Gabriel Boric’s government
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

Blog post: Bolsonaro in the Ukraine crisis. Framing extractivism as a national strategy
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

Natural Resources, Raw Materials and Extractivism: The Dark Side of Sustainability
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

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

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

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