Complicating the action of the State in Neo-Extractivism

If the rupture and continuities between extractivism and neo-extractivism are related to the action of the State, how can we understand the contradictions of the State action in the case of soybean production? Specifically understanding that the Nation-States of the United Republic of Soybeans have been part of the new-left government of Latin America, how have these states promoted, regulated, limited and reformulated extractive practices within their development projects?

How do these production models relate to the world system and dependence mechanisms at the global scale? How do different categories of the population interact with the State in order to deepen the model or resist and promote alternative development?

Cordoba, D., Chiappe, M., Abrams, J., & Selfa, T. (2017). Fuelling Social Inclusion? Neo-extractivism, State-Society Relations and Biofuel Policies in Latin America’s Southern Cone. Development and Change, 49. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12362

Fabricant, N., & Gustafson, B. (2014). Moving Beyond the Extractivism Debate, Imagining New Social Economies. NACLA Report on the Americas, 47(4), 40–45. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714839.2014.11721813

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