The European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes
(EADI) Conference 2020: Solidarity, Peace and Social Justice 29 June - 2
July 2020, at ISS, The Hague, The Netherlands.
* Call for papers:*
*The extractive imperative, a global phenomenon?*
Natural resource extraction is often seen simultaneously as a source of
income, employment generation and financing for social policy expenditure
and investment in infrastructure. More broadly, extraction itself is so
central to development that it overrides any other concern and extractive
activities seem to enjoy teleological primacy to the point that
governments, and other social actors, embrace an ‘extractive imperative’.
According to this imperative, extraction needs to continue and expand
regardless of prevailing circumstances, with the state playing a leading
role and capturing a large share of the ensuing revenues. The difference
between ‘extractivism’ (or neo-extractivism) and the extractive imperative
is more than a semantic one. The former refers to development policies,
whereas the latter can be located at a higher ontological plane as it
describes the overall political zeitgeist, including but certainly going
beyond state policies. That is, extractive activities play a foundational
role in a model of development that, in turn, shapes expectations and
policies. As such, the promotion of extractive activities prevails over other
concerns and can undermine social justice.
The concept has originated in response to developments in Latin America
(Arsel, Hogenboom, & Pellegrini, 2016) while the region was being swept by
a series of leftwing electoral successes often referred to as the ‘left
turn’. However, it is increasingly becoming relevant for the analysis of
political economy dynamics outside this context as well.
Whereas the initial characterisation of the ‘extractive imperative’ gave
primacy to state action, the contemporary conjecture in which extractivism
creates resistance as well as consent, especially in ‘authoritarian’
contexts such as Brazil, Turkey and Philippines, makes this a particularly
productive moment to discuss the evolution of the extractive imperative.
Therefore, the panel aims not only to explore the shape of ‘extractive
imperative’ in Latin America in the post-‘left turn’ era but also its
contours globally as well as comparatively.
Final submission type: draft papers, (extended) abstracts
Convened by: Murat Arsel and Lorenzo Pellegrini (both from
International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), the Netherlands)
*The call for abstracts will close on 15 December 2019*. Please submit your
drafts at https://www.eadi.org/gc/2020/
Arsel, M., Hogenboom, B., & Pellegrini, L. (2016). The extractive
imperative in Latin America. *The Extractive Industries and Society*, 3,
880–887.
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Lorenzo Pellegrini, PhD.
Associate Professor, Economics of Environment and Development.
International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
www.iss.nl/pellegrini
2019. Maria’s paradox and the misery of missing development alternatives in
the Ecuadorian Amazon. Available here
<https://www.academia.edu/38461183/Arsel_M._Pellegrini_L._and_Mena_C._2019_._Maria_s_paradox_and_the_misery_of_missing_development_alternatives_in_the_Ecuadorian_Amazon>
2019. Community-Based Monitoring of Oil Extraction: Lessons Learned in the
Ecuadorian Amazon. Here
<https://www.academia.edu/41018353/Mena_Arsel_Pellegrini_et_al._2019_Community_Based_Monitoring_of_Oil_Extraction_Lessons_Learned_in_the_Ecuadorian_Amazon>
2019. The Resource Curse in Latin America. Here
<https://www.academia.edu/41018608/The_Resource_Curse_of_Latin_America>
2018. Oil and Conflict in the Ecuadorian Amazon: An Exploration of Motives
and Objectives. Here
<https://www.erlacs.org/articles/abstract/10.32992/erlacs.10413/>
2018. 'The squeaky wheel gets the grease'? The conflict imperative and the
slow fight against environmental injustice in northern Peruvian Amazon. Here
<https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol23/iss3/art7/>
2018. Imaginaries of development through extraction: The ‘History of
Bolivian Petroleum’ and the present view of the future. Here
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718518300228>
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