Urban extractivism. Contesting megaprojects in Mexico City, rethinking urban values

Monika Streule

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Abstract: Urban extractivism is an emergent concept increasingly discussed within Latin America-based scholarship but less known in anglophone urban geography. The devastating social and environmental impact of large-scale natural resource extraction, usually accompanied and driven by infrastructure megaprojects, is the main domain to which activists and scholars are currently applying the concept of extractivism. However, extractivism-related accumulation also applies to urban contexts, as for instance, scholars argue using this lens to analyze the production of exclusive urban territories in central Buenos Aires. In this contribution, I suggest to broaden the concept of urban extractivism to address pressing challenges of urban transformations in the peripheries of Mexico City, particularly concerning urban infrastructure megaprojects and Indigenous socio-territorial movements that advocate for a more sustainable use of natural resources. Critical reflection on the extractivism of knowledge reveals the need for more collaborative research methods in urban geography and beyond.

Keywords: accumulation by dispossession; Ecoterritorial turn; infrastructure megaprojects; Latin America; socio-territorial movements; urban values (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J01 R14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10 pages
Date: 2023-01-02
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Published in Urban Geography, 2, January, 2023, 44(1), pp. 262 - 271. ISSN: 0272-3638

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