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How do these new forms of extractivism and the rearticulation of the action of the State around it also generate new forms of resistance? What are the different ways of organizing that emerge and develop in the […]

Map of the United Republic of Soybeans as defined by Syngenta

The United Republic of Soybeans is the name Syngenta multinational company gave to an entire region of Latin America, namely the Southern Cone, […]

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? […]

How does the practice of countermapping constitutes a resistance to the disposession and a mecanism of commoning?

Through different methods of collective mapping or GIS, people – activists, inhabitants, […]

Diane shared with us the method of the iceberg, that she learned from friends doing organizing work. It is a great method to question basic assumptions about our cases. It allows us to think first of all about […]

Jah presented to us the method of Poetry From The Future, showing us different examples. The presentation was very fluid and not as structured as what Miranda did. I learned about M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! and w […]

Miranda presented the method of inductive visualization as her last participation to the group work. Her generosity in sharing the method with us reflects the sense of care we had decided to locate at the center […]

While our group started discussing and shaping the project, we shifted our approach.  Our initial reflection on the links between Territory, Sovereignty and Security through the analysis of very different cases […]

The initial plan

The Plan Abre is a public policy from the Provincia of Santa Fe in Argentina. It is a very interesting urban program to think through the different understandings of sovereignty, territory […]

In 2009 the Uruguayan author E. Gudynas’s text “10 Tesis Urgentes sobre el Neo-Extrativismo” (10 urgent tesis on neo-extractivism) introduced the new political economic concept of neo-extractivism. Since then […]