POLLEN23: Political Ecologies of Extraction
Channel: Political Ecology Network
Date: 2023-10-11

This session includes four presentations addressing the Political Ecologies of extraction. The session is chaired by Llewellyn Leonard.

- Llewellyn Leonard (UNISA) - Examining a political ecology of civil society actions against mining development and for water and food security: The case of the uMkhanyakude District Municipality in Northern KwaZulu-Natal 

Martin Magidi (African Centre For Cities, UCT) - Bankrolling the state - milking the community: Mining and the treadmills of production at Connemara mine in Zimbabwe

Luis Andueza (King's College London) - 'Subjectivity, fossil capitalism, and uneven and combined extraction in indigenous Amazonia'

Jessica Hope (University Of St Andrews) - The Infrastructure of Sustainable Development: roads, extraction & finance in the Amazon