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Bringing heterodoxy back into a world of pessimism
(2024-01-29)
In this Extractivism Occasional Papers’ volume, we brought together two first-wave scholars working on structuralism, class and development, Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira and Hartmut Elsenhans, and upcoming scholars – Ingrid Harvord Kvangraven, Fernando Rugitsky and Johanna Siebert – who build on structuralist thinking to present their own take on the importance of revitalising it. Our project follows the Hegelian dialectics and seeks aufheben, in the sense of learning from the past, preserving what is valuable, and ...
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Les dynamiques socio-économiques du Hirak Algérien : un facteur souvent ignoré
(2023-09)
• In 2019, Algeria experienced one of the largest popular uprisings the country has ever seen in its post-independence history: the Hirak.
• The crisis had been looming for several years, as shifts in the political elite increased. The end of the financial boom exacerbated this process.
• Between 2015 and 2018, oil and gas export revenues declined by an average of 14% per year.
• Socioeconomic factors ultimately contributed to the outbreak of the Algerian hirak.
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Climate Change and Consumption Patterns in Latin America: The Urgency of a Structural Transformation
(2024-02)
• Climate change obstructs Latin America's development, affecting the economy, society, and the environment. A substantial investment is needed for the 2050-2070 deep decarbonization process.
• Latin America's unsustainable development in the last five decades has boosted consumption, employment, and poverty reduction but falls short in addressing chronic poverty and high-income concentration. This undermines economic dynamics and exposes society to climate change impacts.
• A just climate transition requires changes ...
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Prekäre Beschäftigung in Hessen
(2024-06)
Ziel dieses Papiers im Rahmen der Hessischen Arbeitsweltberichterstattung ist es, ein für Hessen differenziertes Bild von der Entwicklung atypischer Beschäftigungsformen zu zeichnen. Hierzu wird zunächst eine definitorische Aufarbeitung der häufig synonym verwendeten Begriffe atypisch und prekär erfolgen sowie auf Basis des Forschungsstandes skizziert, welche Risiken mit atypischen Beschäftigungsverhältnissen einhergehen (können) und welche Gruppen davon besonders häufig betroffen sind (Kap. 2). Aufbauend auf diesen ...
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Basic Video Production
(2024-05)
Basic Video Production Handbook - OER created in the context of a Global Partnership Network Course on Participatory Video. //
This handbook offers a simple, step-by-step guide through the process of video-making, offering tips for planning and preparation, storytelling, camera-handling skills and video editing. It is designed to assist beginners in putting together short videos, using a smartphone and minimal, low-cost equipment. Video is now a mainstream communication tool that can be created and shared by ...
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Impact of Corporate Integrated Farm Solutions on Small Farmers
(2023-10)
This study explores the penetration of agribusiness on the peasantry in a Karnal zone of Haryana, with a focus on input supply networks. It elaborates the ways in which big corporations, particularly transnational agribusiness, penetrate the markets and production systems through the promotion of ‘integrated solutions’. The material basis of the establishment of corporate dominance through such solutions can be found in the emerging patterns of vertical and horizontal integration which are embedded within the macro ...
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Authoritarian escalation in Peru : Extractivism, racial discrimination and democracy
(2023-06-23)
• The current political crisis in Peru manifests long-standing social discontent over historical ethnic, class and environmentalinequalities that are largely created and supported by the extractivist model.
• Traditionally, extractivism has developed in the country in a localized authoritarian manner. Emergency decreessuspending fundamental rights and guarantees and opening spaces for the disproportionate use of public force happenedonly in particular zones of social conflict.
• Extractivism has imposed itself ...
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Brazilian Development at a Standstill? Perspectives and Challenges for the New Lula Government.
(2022-12)
• Brazil has a standstill development syndrome as its development path swayed from extractivism to industrialization and back to extractivism.
• The prioritization of environmental protection and indigenous rights is the most significant novelty for Lula in 2022 compared to his previous governments.
• Lula's third mandate will not be a left-wing government due to the broadness of the coalition.
• Lula aims to improve people's livelihoods and reduce poverty by promoting industrialization. Therefore, international ...
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Argentina in the context of the global socioenvironmental crisis
(2023-07-26)
• Agro-extractivism has shaped the productive matrix during the last four decades in Argentina.
• Agro-extractivism not only does not satisfy the population's food demand, but also deepens the socio-environmental crisis, generating environmental depredation, health problems, economic concentration, and social polarization.
• To overcome the crisis of agro-extractivism in Argentina, it is necessary to transform the patterns of production, consumption and accumulation, which will require democratizing access to land ...