Pléyade

No. 18 (2016): Capitalism of the Global South
Interviews

Extractivism and Social Theory in Latin America. An interview with Eduardo Gudynas

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  • Eduardo Gudynas,
  • Hernán Cuevas Valenzuela,
  • Dasten Julián Vejar
Eduardo Gudynas
Centro Latino Americano de Ecología Social
Hernán Cuevas Valenzuela
Universidad de Chile
Dasten Julián Vejar
Universidad Católica de Temuco
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Published 2016-12-26

Keywords

  • Extractivism,
  • Neoextractivism,
  • Transitions,
  • Alternatives to Extractivism,
  • Critique of Developmentalism,
  • Social Theory in Latin America
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How to Cite

Gudynas, Eduardo, Hernán Cuevas Valenzuela, and Dasten Julián Vejar. 2016. “Extractivism and Social Theory in Latin America. An Interview With Eduardo Gudynas”. Pléyade, no. 18 (December):269-88. https://revistapleyade.cl/index.php/OJS/article/view/108.
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Abstract

In this interview, Eduardo Gudynas delves into some of his concepts such us development and post-development, political ecology, extractivism and types of extractivism and their environmental consequences. He also puts forward some of the key axes of his postdevelopment proposal that favours sustainability, recognition of the rights of nature, and the idea of buen vivir as an alternative to developmentalism. In a somehow novel move, he poses several ideas of new kind of social theory currently emerging in Latin America.

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