ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses how and why extractive industries have been a vector of inequality and vulnerability across resource-rich countries in the Global South and in colonial contexts in the North. It has three sections. First, it provides a brief overview of the main approaches around these challenges. It then provides a discussion on contemporary policy and practices around extractive industries and how these may be ill-equipped to tackle the sector’s socio-environmental and human rights record. Lastly, it offers some suggestions on teaching and learning practices to better understand, and act upon, the challenge that extractivism poses to students, researchers, and practitioners. A critical appraisal of the ‘policy-solutions’ put forward with regards to extractive industries demands a higher degree of reflectiveness in knowledge production and knowledge mobilization.
