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melinabuns.bsky.social
such wonderful two days with fantastic scholars! thank you to everyone who engaged in discussions about extraction, extractivism, and beyond!

thank you to the @britishacademy.bsky.social for making this workshop possible and to @uobrisceh.bsky.social for hosting it.

#envhum

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dudleymarianna.bsky.social Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 4d
Day one of the Extractive Natures/Natures of Extraction workshop, organised by @melinabuns.bsky.social as part of her @britishacademy.bsky.social fellowship here at Bristol @uobrisceh.bsky.social . Great papers that spanned resource extraction from medieval Europe to modern day Australia
Group photo of 16 academics on a lawn with an autumnal tree and buildings behind them.
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
organiccarbon.bsky.social
Essential event in Bristol. We must understand extractivism if we want to understand the climate crisis - and co-create an ethical approach in addressing it. #COP30
hellobrigstow.bsky.social Brigstow Institute @hellobrigstow.bsky.social · 3d
🌍 How do colonial legacies shape today’s climate crisis and tech culture? Neocolonialism, Extraction & the Cracked Mirror of Capitalism – talks + film at Watershed, 15 Nov.

Free tickets 👉https://www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/events/neocolonialism-extraction/
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
dianave.bsky.social
Good on #Wales! #feminism #patriarchy #neoliberalism #extractivism #vision #economy policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/gr...
Green, Fair and Caring: A feminist roadmap for Wales - Oxfam Policy & Practice
This report contributes to a global vision for a green new deal by grounding it in the Welsh context. It recognises that the economic and climate crises are deeply interconnected as interlocking conse...
policy-practice.oxfam.org
November 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
mopolis.bsky.social
Excerpt: Extractivism II - The Greenfield Project.

Book release! Parts I and II of these exciting dystopian/near-future novels are available on Substack as chapter-based e-books. Immediate access. Two for the price of one!

(Paperback will be available soon).

#books

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November 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
xrglobal.bsky.social
Hello, we are XR Latin America. From the territories that resist climate collapse, we invite you to join our campaign #VoicesOfTheAmazonia in the context of 30 years of green washing at COP30. #XRVocesDeLaSelva #ExtinctionRebellion
Download the campaign pack at bit.ly/xrvoces
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Hello, we are XR Latin America. From the territories that resist climate collapse, we invite you to join our campaign #VoicesOfTheAmazonia in the context of 30 years of green washing at COP30. While governments negotiate with corporations, our forests burn, our rivers are poisoned, and our peoples are displaced and repressed. Oil, mining, and agribusiness extractivism are devouring the Amazon and putting the future of all the humanity at risk. But in Latin America, communities, Indigenous people, and territorial assemblies do not give up. We organize, we resist, and we raise our voices for life. 👉🏽 We invite you to join from your territory. Download the images, flyers, and stickers at bit.ly/xrvoces and share on your social media and spread the word of our messages in defense of the Amazonia and Abya Yala territories. Tag @XRLatinoamerica and use the hashtag #XRVocesDeLaSelva so our voices can cross the borders. 💚 Today, nature is calling us to listen to its heartbeat, to break the silence, and to act together, beyond all borders. To defend the Earth is to defend life. #ExtinctionRebellion
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
loveemmarose.bsky.social
When we rest
say NO to busy
disrupts systems
harming people
hurting planet
making some folks super-rich

#Poem #smArtist #Photography #Poetry #ArtYear #ImageAndVerse #Stunday #Autumn #Fall #Tree #Restful #Peaceful #Rebellion

The 365 24/7 extractivism of capitalism harms

Choose no!

(see Alt Text…)
Multiple trees in the process of losing their leaves as they prepare for a restful time of dormancy through winter. Photo by the author of this poem and post, Emma Rose (Purposeful Poetry) More info: living on this planet means we’re part of nature’s cycles. Choosing to notice ~ and aligning with them ~ brings us better health, and it disrupts the unhealthy system of extractive capitalism that aggressively extracts natural resources and people’s work labour to generate maximum profit. Extractive capitalism prioritises wealth accumulation for a few people, at the expense of most people and planet. The system thrives on short-term gains, disregarding the irreversible damage it causes to nature and people. Opting out of hustle and busy - and saying no to buying more than we need - is a powerful act.
November 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
stand.earth
And remember: Big Oil and Gas did this. This is a crisis of climate justice.

The people that contribute the least to climate change are being disproportionately impacted while the corporations responsible continue to push for more extractivism and expansion.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:04 PM
adriennebuller.bsky.social
Calling all Milei-heads

Incisive new piece from Lola Allen on Milei's latest victory, the IMF and extractivism in Argentina.

As Allen writes: "This is not stabilization—it is the active production of instability to justify permanent external control."

www.break-down.org/javier-milei...
Javier Milei and the Long Shadow of the IMF
In Argentina, economic chaos and political upheaval expose how the IMF’s stabilizing promise has become a mechanism of managed decline.
www.break-down.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
iansociologo.bsky.social
This passage particularly connected with me (as an environmental sociologist).
Agreeing was clearly the most obvious thing to do. But was it? As an environmental historian, I know that the simultaneous exploitation of labour and nature has underpinned modern economic growth. In fact this story is key to my book. I show that the hardships of peat extraction, often endured by female peat workers, were rendered invisible by large technological systems and by a politics of marginalisation that left workers with little say, while peatlands turned into industrial wastelands. Digital extractivism operates similarly, but it is difficult to detect as our screens, keyboards and web interfaces give us no clues about the social and material contexts of their origin.
October 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
lutzfernandez.bsky.social
This language is very helpful: "AI's extractive nature."

AI takes.

drb.ie/move-over-fo...
The evidence for AI’s extractive nature is overwhelming. Not only have LLMs exploited content stolen from writers, artists, journalists and scholars. The industry’s reliance on massive data sets also requires content moderation that exposes poorly paid workers to the worst content online. Journalists have documented the impact on workers’ mental health, personal relationships and communities. Taking an ecological perspective is no less comforting. Data centres powering AI have a massive demand for energy and threaten decarbonisation efforts. They also use lots of water – often where water is increasingly scarce. It could be said, of course, that most technologies, digital or other, embody injustice and extractivism. But this doesn’t make ethical and ecological concerns about AI as the new default any less valid. In a world on fire, how can we concede so much power to an exploitative technology that produces questionable results, operates in opaque ways, deepens social precarity and fuels the planetary emergency?
October 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
richardhull54.bsky.social
Good in-depth analysis here.
#Geopolitics
#Petrostates
#NewColdWar
#USImperialism
#Extractivism
transitionsec.bsky.social Transition Security Project @transitionsec.bsky.social · 13d
“By binding Israel’s military power together with the Gulf’s hydrocarbon reserves...Washington aims to push back against its weakened regional and global position.”

Read Adam Hanieh on fossil capitalism in the Middle East, kicking off our essay series.

transitionsecurity.org/oil-militari...
The Middle East and Fossil Capitalism: Oil, Militarism and the Global Order
The struggle against fossil capitalism is inseparable from struggles for justice in the Middle East.
transitionsecurity.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
rontribunal.bsky.social
📢 The 6th International #RightsOfNatureTribunal is coming to Belém, Brazil! 🌿

🌍 One powerful day to confront extractivism & uplift Earth’s legal rights ahead of #COP30.
📅 Nov 11
🔗 bit.ly/rights-of-nature-tribunal-2025
#RightsofNature
October 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
oefse.at
📣 Event tip: “Landscapes of extraction & resistance: insights from Central America and Chile”

📅 November 13, 2025 | 18:00–20:00📍 C3

💬 In her keynote, Grettel Navas explores how extractivism fuels inequality and how communities resist it.

Infos & registration 👉 www.oefse.at/veranstaltun...
Sharepic with the essential event informations
October 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
nrginstitute.bsky.social
Join NRGI’s @NafiQuarshie at a @GreenpeaceAfric webinar to discuss how Africa can reshape mineral governance to ensure it delivers development.

📆: 29 Oct.
🕙: 10AM (WAT)
📍: online

🔗: resourcegovernance.org/events/critical-minerals-africa-dismantling-neoliberal-extractivism-sustainable-development
October 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM
gjep123.bsky.social
Join us for a webinar on 29 October featuring speakers from our member groups whose stories of resistance to extractivism are included in the latest issue of Forest Cover: Exploited Lands, Exploited Lives.

Wed, 29 Oct 2025
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm UTC
🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
douccap.bsky.social
Dear Colleagues,

On behalf my co-organisers, I am writing to invite abstract submissions for the ‘Re-centring land conflicts in the post-globalisation order’ mini-conference (MC11) as part of the SASE 2026 Conference in Bordeaux (1-3 July).

sase.org/events/2026-...

Deadline: December 16th
In this mini-conference, we are seeking to have a critical debate about land struggles over sovereignty, resources and means of survival. We are inviting folks to submit abstracts (no more than 1000 words) which raise land as the main object of analysis of power in a ‘post-globalisation order’. By seeking to re-centre the Land Question in contemporary socio and political economic debate and scholarship, we aim to illuminate how land and the power it confers shape institutions, create and mediate conflicts, and determine possibilities for both domination and resistance in an era marked by ecological crisis and geopolitical realignment. We are particularly interested in hearing about research which speaks to one of our key themes: 1. Land conflicts and new imperialisms 2. Extractivism and resource conflicts 3. Digital infrastructure and the material internet 4. Institutions and power in the regulation of land 5. Consequences of urban and rural land concentration 6. Land rent and heterodox economics
October 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
periodistafigueroa.bsky.social
Extractivismos en América Latina en los últimos 25 años kaosenlared.net/extractivism...
Extractivismos en América Latina en los últimos 25 años
Un primer balance de ideas, análisis y alternativas. Una reflexión personal, seguramente incompleta, sobre algunos nudos en conceptos y prácticas. Por Eduardo Gudynas Es oportuno compartir un balanc...
kaosenlared.net
October 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
jonschu.bsky.social
Stimulating conversations on #extractivism here at #IFEAS Mainz
Poster for extractivism workshop at ifeas uni mainz
October 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
ketanjoshi.co
“It’s very difficult being such a small minority to defend yourself when the arguments are rooted in saving the world,” Sara notes.

“Extractivism has adopted the language of ecology, but still it’s just aiming to find more suitable ways to continue habits of consumption.”
‘Smell is a language’: Máret Ánne Sara on why Tate’s Turbine Hall whiffs of frightened reindeer
As Sámi culture is threatened by the climate emergency and hostility from Nordic nations, the artist has built a structure of resistance: a labyrinthine artwork of animal pelts and bones based on a re...
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
fian-international.bsky.social
⚡"GREEN" EXTRACTIVISM IS STILL EXTRACTIVISM

📅SIDE EVENT on the 11th Session on TNC #BindingTreaty negotiations, "The Need for a Legally Binding Treaty in the Context of the Global Rush for Critical Minerals"

@stoptncimpunity.bsky.social @cetim-cetim.bsky.social @escrnet.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
zetaefe.bsky.social
Three forces drove the MAS’s collapse: the economic and BoP crisis from collapsing gas revenues—the perennial curse of extractivism in South America; internal factionalism that paralyzed government and fractured society and the bases of the party...
October 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
flo.by
Isn't it meant to be a take on extractivism? Doesn't explain de river flowing back to normal after a crowning ceremony though
October 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
loveemmarose.bsky.social
Oh, and if you need encouragement to overcome the conditioning that can run deep ~ that pausing to rest is ‘lazy’ ~ here‘s a quote that highlights how powerful saying no to being busy is.

It’s a powerful no to the extractivism of capitalism that has placed profit above people, wildlife and planet 💜
Dark purple background with white text that says: One day I hope we can all deprogram from the lie that rest, silence, and pausing is a luxury and privilege. It is not! The systems manipulated you to believe it is true. We have replaced our inherent self-esteem with toxic productivity Tricia Hersey ~ Author of 'Rest is Resistance.'
October 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
#Privatisation - a few profit and the rest of us pay.

Built on a cynical ideology and pure extractivism

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence
A cost of living crisis is not inevitable if there is the will to stop companies extracting profits from Britain’s essential services, says Mathew Lawrence of the Common Wealth thinktank
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
sapphic-film-nerd.bsky.social
The protests are a response to state violence, land grabs, harmful extractivism, and neoliberal policies under Daniel Noboa. Not gas prices.

They are being labeled terrorists for protecting their land and community.
October 15, 2025 at 4:24 AM