ABSTRACT

This chapter examines the impact of extractive activities and the large amount of natural resources it removes. Centered on ecofeminist perspectives, it evaluates the global capital’s ecological management in North, Central, and South America. Four questions are addressed: how extractivism has been organized; how women’s movements against violence in their territories defy extractivism; how Indigenous peoples’ movements against oil and mining have become involved in contesting global trends as well as national and local policies supporting them; and why potential extractivist conflicts are looming in Amazonia. This chapter uncovers the United Nations as a key force in the permanent model of colonialism, economic development, patriarchy, and geopolitical power found in extractivism.