"Living in Nature". Residential Mobility and Real Estate Extractivism in Mountain Ranges of Cordoba (Argentina)

The current research analyses residential mobility from the big city to small towns with envi-ronmental and landscape qualities;and its counterpart, the real estate speculation that such displacement entails. For this purpose and based on the analysis of two ethnographic cases located in the mountain ranges of Cordoba (Argentina), discourses are investigated and which are mobilised by the practice of the business sector to encourage the arrival of metropolitan populations to these scenarios and install "life in nature" as a market niche. This internal mi-gratory trend, which originated approximately fifty years ago, has become more acute in the surge of the COviD-19 health crisis, raising local concerns about radical changes in land use. These changes result in a series of social and environmental problems that materialise a process that can be described as real estate extractivism.

Extractivism, social explosion and territorial processes: effects of coal mining in Cesar and La Guajira, Colombia

The social uprising in Colombia since 2019 and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated tensions re-vealing unusual territorial disputes. This article presents socio-spatial processes derived from the transformations induced by extractivism in the departments of Cesar and La Guajira, emphasizing the role of social mobilization. The ob-jective is to expose dynamics that reflect the territorialization of production relations. The intention that directed the in-vestigation was to capture guidelines that allow interpreting emerging conditions in regional environments impacted by extractivism. For this, official indicators were used, press monitoring and cartographic analysis of satellite images were carried out. It was concluded that there is a diverse ar-ticulation of social actors that arise from the existing territo-rial dynamics and challenge the bases of the extractivist mo -del. With this perspective, we reflect on the role of territorial planning in the face of the urgency of new alternatives that imply overcoming the current socio-environmental crisis derived from transnational mining.

Just Transition for Healthy People on a Healthy Planet.

The definition of Just Transition in recent years has been shaped by the political and ideological leanings of multiple stakeholders. Labor movements look at a Just Transition that secures workers' rights and jobs; environmental justice groups include whole communities impacted by fossil fuel in their description; multilateral institutions, investors, and transnational corporations see it through lenses of economics, financial support, and investment. However, a perspective on health is missing in all these approaches. The COVID-19 pandemic has established the importance of health-based planning, making evident the co-dependence of ecological health and human well-being. The debilitating post-pandemic economic crisis has reiterated the interlinkage between economics, public health, and the environment. This document posits that health is the overlapping but missing link between the different movements' dream for Just Transition into an equitable world, and to heal people and the planet damaged by fossil fuels. We need Just Transition that has holistic health systems and accessible healthcare services at its core.

Weeding Out the Weak: Labor, Gender, and Disability in a U.S. Fossil Fuel Boomtown

COVID-19 has radically reshaped the labor dreams of many U.S. workers. This essay uses pre-pandemic fieldwork in an oil and gas "boomtown” to consider post-work imaginaries in the wake and midst of COVID-19. I use feminist and disability studies perspectives to argue that economic analyses must not only move beyond the discourse of "jobs” but must also attend to gender-based and ableist modes of discrimination that persist even in so-called booming economies. I posit the figure of the economically productive worker, asking how routine practices of identity-shaped discrimination undermine the capacities of some to embody this figure. My interview-derived and ethnographic data suggest that economic self-sufficiency is a woefully inadequate model for meeting the material needs of people, and that labor innovations such as a universal basic income are necessary to achieve the kinds of flourishing sought by those participating in the "great resignation.” [ FROM AUTHOR]

Environmental Resistances and Territorial Feminisms as a Response to Agro-Industrial Extractivism in Argentina: What has the Pandemic Shown Us?

In Latin America, the covid-19 pandemic has deepened inequalities and perceptions of the socio-ecological crisis produced by the extractivist model that has dominated the region's economies for the last few decades. In Argentina, resistance to this model is led by indigenous peasant farmers organised in the face of land grabbing processes. We address the role of feminisms within these territorial proposals during the pandemic, analyzing the case of women in the National Indigenous Peasant Movement (MNCI). Using an ethnographic approach with grassroots activists and qualitative analysis of public statements, we reflect on their positioning as spokespersons for critical alternatives to neoliberalism, through strategic alliances with broad sectors of the Global South.

Resistencias ambientales y feminismos territoriales frente al extractivismo agroindustrial en Argentina, ¿qué nos ha dejado la pandemia?

La pandemia por covid-19 en América Latina profundizó las desigualdades y los imaginarios de crisis socioecológica producida por el modelo extractivista que domina las economías de la región desde las últimas décadas. En Argentina, las resistencias a dicho modelo están encabezadas por el campesinado-indígena, organizado frente a procesos de acaparamiento de tierras. Aquí abordamos el papel de los feminismos dentro de estas propuestas territoriales durante la coyuntura de la pandemia, analizando el caso de las mujeres en el Movimiento Nacional Campesino Indígena (MNCI). A partir de un enfoque etnográfico con activistas de base y del análisis cualitativo de pronunciamientos públicos, reflexionamos sobre su posicionamiento como portavoces de alternativas críticas al neoliberalismo, mediante alianzas estratégicas con amplios sectores del Sur Global.Alternate : In Latin America, the covid-19 pandemic has deepened inequalities and perceptions of the socio-ecological crisis produced by the extractivist model that has dominated the region’s economies for the last few decades. In Argentina, resistance to this model is led by indigenous peasant farmers organised in the face of land grabbing processes. We address the role of feminisms within these territorial proposals during the pandemic, analyzing the case of women in the National Indigenous Peasant Movement (MNCI). Using an ethnographic approach with grassroots activists and qualitative analysis of public statements, we reflect on their positioning as spokespersons for critical alternatives to neoliberalism, through strategic alliances with broad sectors of the Global South.Alternate : A pandemia de covid-19 na América Latina aprofundou as desigualdades e os imaginários de crise socioecológica produzida pelo modelo extrativista que vem dominando as economias da região nas últimas décadas. Na Argentina, a resistência a esse modelo é liderada pelos camponeses-indígenas organizados contra os processos de grilagem de terras. Aqui abordamos o papel do feminismo dentro dessas propostas territoriais durante a pandemia, analisando o caso das mulheres no Movimento Nacional Camponês Indígena (MNCI). A partir de uma abordagem etnográfica com ativistas de base e da análise qualitativa de pronunciamentos públicos, refletimos sobre seus posicionamentos como porta-vozes de alternativas críticas ao neoliberalismo, por meio de alianças estratégicas com amplos setores do Sul Global.

Multiple crises, neo-developmentalism, and megaprojects in Mexico’s southeast region

This article analyzes the extractivist and dispossession modalities in the Mexican neodevelopmental proposal to face the multiple crises accentuated by the COVID-19 pandemic. With the qualitative narrative method applied to social processes, four infrastructure and extractivist megaprojects are analyzed. Neodevelopmental policies of the current government insist on carrying out works as a strategy to create jobs, reactivate the economy, and promote well-being, especially for the southeast region with high rates of socioeconomic inequality. The fi ndings point to an increase in investment and job creation and a rejection by various communities and organizations that consider that their ways of life are being threatened by the eff orts of the neodevelopmental government to build megaprojects before and during the pandemic © The Author(s)

Protection and protest by “voluntary” community health workers: Covid-19 authoritarianism in India

During the COVID-19 crisis, the Indian state assigned an outstanding role in the containment of the pandemic to ASHAs, “voluntary” community healthcare workers. Local women were recruited as “honorary” workers receiving only a small honorarium or piece rate “incentives.” The feminisation, casualisation, and informalisation of work in state-funded social welfare schemes are examples of care extractivism. ASHAs had to spearhead awareness-raising, identify infections, and organise vaccinations in rural areas, often without proper protective equipment and always without fair payment. Despite such care extractivism, these caregivers were celebrated by the middle classes as frontline fighters of the nation amidst a masculinist discourse of “war,” “warriors,” “heroes,” and “sacrifice.” Yet, at the height of the crisis in 2020 when thousands of ASHAs contracted COVID-19, they went on strike. Having gained confidence in earlier struggles, they complained about extreme exhaustion, increased vulnerability, and the depletion of caring capacities. Their efforts reflect a feminisation of labour struggles that focuses on care work with an emphasis on both the care-recog-nition-gap and the care-pay-gap. © 2021, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. All rights reserved.