How has resistance to destructive extractivist investment affected the outcomes of natural resource politics? This talk reflects on how social movements, NGOs, and other forms of active citizenship contesting the illegalities or socio-environmental injustices of over-extractive natural resource operations have influenced the economic outcomes in different contexts.
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Professor Markus Kröger
Based on detailed empirical findings from Brazil, the lecture considers how multinational companies in the industrial forestry sector, have managed to grab large tracts of land using illegal actions, corruption and violence. These discussions are important to highlight by which means human rights are being violated, and how more democratic decision-making and rule of law could be built, especially in the Global South.
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Professor Markus Kröger has focused on the interface of critical agrarian and environmental studies, especially on the global politics of extraction amid climatic-ecological crises. He has studied mining, agriculture and agroforestry dynamics in South America, India and Arctic. His recent work on existences and extractivisms has pushed the boundaries of conventional research on resource frontiers. His forthcoming book, Clearcut: Political Economies of Deforestation, Cambridge University Press, 2025, studies how extractivist sectors that are regionally-dominant are the key in explaining where and how deforestation takes place.
Time: Friday 13 December 2024 2.00pm-3.15pm GMT.
If you would like to attend the event online, please sign up using the following link: https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JDqk_HHEQgqi37yU5jBdAg
Please direct any inquiries to jane.rooney@durham.ac.uk
This event is hosted by the Extractive Industry and Foreign Security Network. This lecture is funded by the Arts and Humanity Research Council research networking scheme AH/W0072X/1