Grassroots Responses to Extractivism

<p><b>This volume makes visible the many innovative resistances and solutions emanating from the Global South in response to the injustices of the current global ecological crises.</b> Rooted in contemporary ecological imperialism these crises are subjecting marginalized communities in the Global South to the worst socio-ecological repercussions worldwide whilst mainstream environmental policies and solutions reproduce market-based approaches premised on a hegemonic Western world-view. <p/>The book details a wide variety of case studies from across Asia Africa and the Americas such as deforestation activism in Cambodia and grassroots community organisation against large scale land transactions in Liberia - among many others. The contributors composed of a mix of academics and activists propose bottom-up solutions to the current ecological and climate crises. This work highlights how anti-capitalist anti-colonial and anti-anthropocentric alternatives and movements are realistic holistic and appropriate in the face of global ecological crises.</p>