The enforced expansion of extractive frontiers: struggles over power, meaning and knowledge

The enforced expansion of extractive frontiers: struggles over power, meaning and knowledge

Dr. Cristina Espinosa, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute, Freiburg

Fabricio Rodríguez, University of Jena

The extraction of natural resources has intensified and expanded since the 1990s, gaining greater significance as a disputed field of social and political tensions since the turn of the century. While some actors compete over access to and control of natural resources, others emphasize the urgency to reverse the exponential expansion of extractive activities. Conflicts over the uneven distribution of risks and benefits associated to the exploration and production of resources have proliferated accordingly. Read more