Kichwa activist Leo Cerda discusses the crucial role of national and global alliances in transitioning from extractive fossil fuels to greener alternatives.
Mareike Winchell’s ethnography of post-hacienda life in Bolivia’s Ayopaya province reveals the complex afterlives of servitude, but fails to weigh the comparative scale between deference and refusal.
Protests in northern Argentina continue against controversial constitutional reforms that criminalize protest and clear the way for lithium extraction at the expense of Indigenous rights.
International mining companies arrive in Jequitinhonha Valley, promising development and provoking concerns about local compensation and water scarcity.
Sociologist and environmental activist Alegna Malavé Marrero talks about the battle against privatization and corruption threatening natural resources and the nation’s cultural identity.
The Irish-based multinational Smurfit Kappa's vast tracts of monoculture forestry in Colombia tie Ireland into global webs of extraction and exploitation.
