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The Labor of Extraction in Latin America
Natural resource extraction and primary commodity export remain persistent features of the Latin American economy. This edited volume traces the power of labor in extractive sectors in Latin America starting in the 1980s and shows how labor shapes national export sectors, economies, politics, and societies more broadly. Kristin Ciupa and Jeffery R. Webber bring together a team of international experts who look at labor in several extractive sectors—including oil and gas, mining and agriculture, and migrant labor. They present a variety of viewpoints and case studies, exploring themes of the strategic organizing potential of extractive workers, the rise of informal labor and its impact on o...
The Necropolitical Production and Management of Forced Migration
Using examples from the United States—Mexico border, Central America, and South America, this book argues that forced migration is not a spontaneous phenomenon, but rather a product of necropolitical strategies designed to depopulate resource rich countries or regions. Estevez merges necropolitical analysis with postcolonial migration and offers a new framework to study the set of policies, laws, institutions, and political discourses producing a profit in a legal context in which habitat devastation is legal, but mobility is a crime. Violence, deprivation of food or water, environmental contamination, and rights exclusion are some of the tactics used in extractivist capitalism. Private and state actors alike, use necropower, both its first and third world versions, to make people, living and dead, a commodity.
The International Defense of Workers
International trade agreements have often been criticized for limited attention to the rights of workers. The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC), a side agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), stands out for linking labor rights provisions to a U.S. trade agreement. Kevin J. Middlebrook provides a comprehensive and systematic examination of the NAALC, assessing its efficacy in protecting workers’ rights over the entire period it was in effect and demonstrating its broader significance for the role of trade and labor standards in U.S. foreign policy. Placing the NAALC in comparative context, Middlebrook considers various ways of promoting workers’ ...
NAFTA 2.0
The renegotiation and possible termination of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) sparked a lot of interest and concern in light of the United States’ declared objective to “rebalance the benefits” of the agreement. This edited book provides an overview of the changes brought to the NAFTA by the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) or NAFTA 2.0. Grouping leading academics and experts from the three countries, the book covers the major topics in the transition from the NAFTA to the USMCA. The book also sheds light on the evolution of North American economic integration within the past three decades and reflects on the significance of the regional integration model represented by the NAFTA and now the USMCA. The book is aimed at scholars, students, officials, professionals and interested citizens concerned by the big issues surrounding North American integration and economic globalization.
The Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography
resource-exploitation dynamics are emphasized a single comprehensive volume that provides a systematic and rigorous overview of state-of-the-art critical-geographical scholarship on resources contributions from leading voices and emerging researchers who draw on diverse theoretical and methodological traditions and whose expertise spans a wide variety of resource sectors and world regions
Derecho, despojo y luchas sociales
Vivimos tiempo de despojo pero también de múltiples resistencias y defensa de lo común. Durante siglos la acumulación capitalista se realizó a través de la plusvalía, ese excedente de trabajo que no le era pagado a los obreros que lo producían. Aunque sigue existiendo, no es el centro de las ganancias de los dueños del dinero sino la conversión en mercancía de los bienes naturales que por mucho tiempo fueron considerados comunes para muchas personas y comunidades, los cuales son indispensables para la vida como el agua y la biodiversidad, entre los más importantes. Por eso, la explicación a este fenómeno la academia lo califica como acumulación por desposesión, mientras las resistencias a ellas, se les denomina movimiento mexicano, luchas por la vida. Este libro es un conjunto de trabajos que exploran esa tensión contemporánea entre el despojo de los bienes comunes y las luchas por la vida; entre las reformas estructurales neoliberales y la defensa de los derechos; entre la mercantilización de los bienes comunes y los movimientos y pueblos que se organizan para defenderlos.
Derecho y literatura
Otra forma de acercarse al derecho es posible, es el espíritu que sintetiza, este libro; y una de esas otras formas es la literatura. El propósito de este texto es descolocar al derecho. A ese derecho que conocemos tradicionalmente como un sistema normativo que ordena a las sociedades qué hacer y qué no hacer desde una supuesta neutralidad y desinterés. Descolocarlo implica moverlo de su cómoda autoconciencia de completitud, seguridad y suficiencia; insistirle en la necesidad de salir de su diálogo interno, del autismo que lo mantiene hablando desde sí y para sí. Y al insistirle al derecho, en realidad se le insiste a la comunidad que lo crea, interpreta, piensa, enseña y que al fi...
Living on a Time Bomb
Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction is deeply inscribed into the daily lives of the community members. The book shows how oil shapes the space where it is extracted in every aspect and produces multiple uncertainties. The community members express these uncertainties using the metaphor of the time bomb. The book shows how they find ways to "live off the time bomb" by using mechanisms of short-term coping and long-term adaptation and thus, developing the capability to determine their lives despite the ever-changing challenges.
Decrypting Power
Decrypting Power aims to reach a unifying concept that allows the connection of the fundamental theses stemming from critical legal studies, Subaltern studies, decolonization, law and society, global political economy, critical geopolitics and theories of de-coloniality. This volume proposes that this concept is the ‘encryption of power’, a category of analysis that reveals the weakness of political liberalism when it takes the place of the legitimate fundament of democracy, as well as its consummate capacity to conceal new mechanisms of global power. The theory of encryption of power understands that there is only a world where difference exists as the fundamental and sole order, but also that such a possibility is heavily obstructed by the concentration of power in forms of oppression. The world hangs on the thread of this entangled reality, made up of difference and its denial, of democracy and its simulations, of truth and its codifications. The decryption of power is then, above all, a theory of justice essential to radical democracy, which comes fully-equipped to prevail over the conditions that deny the possibility of an egalitarian world.
La división del conocimiento
En estas páginas se señala la postura de muchos académicos de ver sus áreas del saber con fronteras inamovibles o naturales, sin pensar que son producto de situaciones y de coyunturas precisas, por lo que sus límites son arbitrarios; esa idea está en consonancia con la rigidez del curriculum universitario. El espectro del conocimiento se concibe como un conjunto de compartimientos que no se pueden franquear. Llamar disciplinas a las materias del Curriculum es atribuir todo el sentido de este término: desde la capacitación hasta la sumisión a una autoridad y al control, y de allí hasta el castigo; también alude a la vigilancia de comportamientos o modos de pensar. Se analiza el cas...
