Contesting Extraction: Challenges for Coalition Building between Agrarian and Anti-mining Movements
In the context of a global expansion of the extractive frontier, building broad protest coalitions is key for emancipatory and non-extractive future transformations of the countryside. Yet even though movements in both the agrarian and the mining sector struggle against the enclosure of land and the...
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| description | In the context of a global expansion of the extractive frontier, building broad protest coalitions is key for emancipatory and non-extractive future transformations of the countryside. Yet even though movements in both the agrarian and the mining sector struggle against the enclosure of land and the loss of livelihoods in rural areas, inter-sectoral coalitions remain scarce. This chapter therefore aims to identify challenges to inter-sectoral coalition building between movements struggling against extractive projects in the agrarian and the mining sector. Based on a case study of Senegal it shows that mutually exclusive identities, missing ‘bridge builders’, and different policy spaces constitute key challenges for the building of coalitions. Furthermore, extraction plays out differently in the agrarian and in the mining sector. Different regulations and economic histories as well as distinct impacts of extractive activities on land and nature provide different incentives and challenges for claim making in the two sectors. In order to understand resistance to extraction, it is therefore key to stay attuned to the different impacts extractive investments have on the ground. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-936ea1b95411423882babbfa6d9dbf2d2025-08-20T02:34:15ZengInstitut de Hautes Études Internationales et du DéveloppementRevue Internationale de Politique de Développement1663-93751663-93912023-06-011610.4000/poldev.5385Contesting Extraction: Challenges for Coalition Building between Agrarian and Anti-mining MovementsLouisa PrauseIn the context of a global expansion of the extractive frontier, building broad protest coalitions is key for emancipatory and non-extractive future transformations of the countryside. Yet even though movements in both the agrarian and the mining sector struggle against the enclosure of land and the loss of livelihoods in rural areas, inter-sectoral coalitions remain scarce. This chapter therefore aims to identify challenges to inter-sectoral coalition building between movements struggling against extractive projects in the agrarian and the mining sector. Based on a case study of Senegal it shows that mutually exclusive identities, missing ‘bridge builders’, and different policy spaces constitute key challenges for the building of coalitions. Furthermore, extraction plays out differently in the agrarian and in the mining sector. Different regulations and economic histories as well as distinct impacts of extractive activities on land and nature provide different incentives and challenges for claim making in the two sectors. In order to understand resistance to extraction, it is therefore key to stay attuned to the different impacts extractive investments have on the ground.https://journals.openedition.org/poldev/5385civil societyresistanceSocial movementsland conflictsmining conflictsextractive investments |
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| title | Contesting Extraction: Challenges for Coalition Building between Agrarian and Anti-mining Movements |
| title_full | Contesting Extraction: Challenges for Coalition Building between Agrarian and Anti-mining Movements |
| title_fullStr | Contesting Extraction: Challenges for Coalition Building between Agrarian and Anti-mining Movements |
| title_full_unstemmed | Contesting Extraction: Challenges for Coalition Building between Agrarian and Anti-mining Movements |
| title_short | Contesting Extraction: Challenges for Coalition Building between Agrarian and Anti-mining Movements |
| title_sort | contesting extraction challenges for coalition building between agrarian and anti mining movements |
| topic | civil society resistance Social movements land conflicts mining conflicts extractive investments |
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