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In the Americas we are living through systemic and compounding crises of unforeseen consequences: rising levels of inequality and social precarity, a crisis of neoliberal hegemony, political upheavals as traditional political parties and political systems lose credibility, recurring climate catastrophes and a rising number of climate refugees, as well as the lacerating effects of the current global pandemic. In such times, we need better analytical tools to unravel the emerging nature of socio-environmental and socio-territorial conflicts in the Americas.

 

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The Cluster Extractivism and Society was formed in 2019. Initially, it defined its aim as, “to explore how a critical cultural political economy approach allows us to unravel the nature of socio-environmental and socio-territorial conflicts in the Americas during the 2002-2020 period.” From its outset, it claimed that deploying a critical cultural political economy perspective to study extractivism and socio-environmental conflicts in the Americas could open new ways of grasping the importance of the sector for the political economy of contemporary Latin America. Since then the Research Cluster has become a space for intellectual engagement with a transdisciplinary perspective to study extractivism and socio-environmental conflicts in the Americas.

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