ISS-CEDLA Conference: The Political Economy of the Extractive Imperative in Latin America: Reducing Poverty and Inequality vs. Ensuring Inclusion and Sustainability?
By Mete Erdurcan.
The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) recently organised, together with the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA), a workshop on extractivism in Latin America hosted by Murat Arsel and Lorenzo Pellegrini, lecturers at the ISS.
Different speakers from around the world were gathered in the ISS, in The Hague, to discuss and present on their expertise in various aspects of topics related to extractivism, such as mining, indigenous people, and (non-) renewable resources. Due to the number of academic research, the workshop started at 09:00 and ended at 18:30; most of them honoured to present their findings.
The second round of the parallel session had as guest speaker Carlos Zorrilla, an activist from Defense and Conservation of Intag (DECOIN).
He presented his lecture ‘When defending your community becomes a high crime: trials and tribulations of standing up to extractivism in Ecuador’. He described his experience in Ecuador with his struggle for the preservation of the nature in the surroundings of his home.
