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Extraction and its Discontents

Course Code: ENVS 4310/5070

Course Date: 25 June 2023 - 4 July 2023

Course Instructor: Anna Zalik

Course Description:

This course examines current political, economic and social debates concerning the extractive industry, placing these in the context of longer histories of global imperialism and colonialism. Following a review of conceptual approaches to natural resource extraction, the course will examine contemporary global regulation and resistance to it, focusing on the state, the corporation, the resource, the affected community, and the (global) social movement as units of analysis

A rainbow over the towns of Quizarra and Santa Elena, in the Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor, near San Isidro, Costa Rica.

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