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A Crisis of Ideas w/Joel Wainwright (opens the original)
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"The Left is in a serious crisis of ideas." Those are the simple and fairly damning words with which our guest, Joel Wainwright, opened his interview with our Editor Adrienne Buller. In a wide-ranging conversation, Adrienne and Joel discuss his extensive work trying to make sense of the specific relationship between capitalism and the climate crisis—drawing this connection not in some general sense, but with attention to the very specific logics, institutions and processes through which capitali
Latin America Turns Right – Guillaume Long on the Politics of Extraction and US imperialism in South America (opens the original)
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In April this year, the Colombian city of Santa Marta hosted the first Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels. The conference was a landmark gathering which sought to shift the terms of the international climate debate away from technocratic squabbling to the far more pointed question of “How can we end fossil fuel use?”. Much of the impetus for that conference was led by then-Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, who, on the campaign trail in 2022, had pledged to wean Colombia off wha
CONTINENTAL SHIFT Ep 4: Extraction North of Empire (opens the original)
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In Canada, intensive resource extraction has long been baked into the country’s political economy and, arguably, to nation-building itself. Resource booms and policy choices have opened landscapes and livelihoods to large-scale mining and fossil fuel extraction, producing harms that are inseparable from the country’s colonial history. Today, as supply chains are restructured around critical minerals and trade regimes are overhauled, Canada faces urgent questions about sovereignty, consent, and j
CONTINENTAL SHIFT Ep 3: Extraction South of Empire (opens the original)
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The ratification of NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) in 1994 transformed Mexico in profound ways. Over the next thirty years it deepened and expanded the resource frontier across the country, disproportionately benefiting national and global elites. Mining activity exploded, and with it the socio‑ecological violence that follows large‑scale extraction. Anti‑extractivist struggles cannot be ignored—especially as Morena, the self-proclaimed progressive political party that holds pow
CONTINENTAL SHIFT Ep 2: A (Not So) New Gold Rush (opens the original)
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The term “critical minerals" suddenly seems to be all over the headlines. Securing access to this group of commodities, from familiar metals like lithium and copper to more obscure “rare earth elements” like yttrium, appears to be a growing priority of world leaders—particularly for those who consider China, currently the world's main producer of most critical minerals, a threat. But what exactly what makes these commodities so “critical” in the first place? Who defines them as such, and who ben
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