Extractivism
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Extractivist practices in the management of natural resources. uncountable
"Extractivism, a term born of anti-colonial struggle and thought in the Americas, is a mode of accumulation based on hyper-extraction with lopsided benefits and costs: concentrated mass-scale removal of resources primarily for export, with benefits largely accumulating far from the sites of extraction."
Example
More examples"Extractivism, a term born of anti-colonial struggle and thought in the Americas, is a mode of accumulation based on hyper-extraction with lopsided benefits and costs: concentrated mass-scale removal of resources primarily for export, with benefits largely accumulating far from the sites of extraction."
Etymology
From extractive + -ism, originally applied to mining practices in Latin America.
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