ABSTRACT
Extractivism has reaffirmed the role of Northern African countries as exporters of nature and as suppliers of natural resources, entrenching their subordinate insertion into the global capitalist economy. There are various cases from the region that exemplify broader patterns of primitive accumulation in the Global South, where accumulation by dispossession takes the brutal form of the extraction and pillage of natural resources, the degradation of environments and ecosystems through the privatisation and commodification of land and water. This is accompanied by an upsurge in the forces of resistance and ‘the entrance of new actors onto the scene’ who demand that wealth be shared and distributed equitably.
