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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2025Spirits of extraction
Christianity, settler colonialism and the geology of race
by Claire Blencowe
Spirits of extraction revisits the troubling history of socially reformist, ostensibly anti-racist, Christianity and its role in the expansion of the extractive industries, British imperialism, and settler colonialism. The book explores key moments in the history of Methodism and the evangelical movement. Colonial fears, and the attempt to 'civilise savages', were crucial to the movement's foundation in eighteenth-century industrialising Bristol, England. Through the culture of the Cornish mining diaspora of the nineteenth century, Methodism enmeshed with all the complexity of race and labour-structures of the British empire. At the same time, in Anishinaabewaki/Upper Canda/Ontario, Methodist missionaries laid the foundation of abusive education and racialised ideas of redemption that both enable and sacralise the mining industry. Through these histories of our present, the book theorises the relation of religion and education to racism, modernity, biopower, extractivism, and the geology of race.
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April 2018Rural Development: Multiple Perspectives for its Analysis
by Jorge Iván Bula Escobar, Wilson Alonso Nuncira Cervantes, Jaime Flórez Bolaños, Cristian Samir Ulloa Ramos, Catherine Valencia González, Jessica Alexandra Cristancho Niño, Juan Sebastián Guerrero Gordillo, Jennifer Alexandra Romero Aldana, Juana Edith Navarrete Marneou, Edgar Alfonso Sansores Guerrero, Zahira Moreno Freites, Lisandro José Alvarado Peña, Roberto Benvenuto
This book aims to present multiple perspectives for the analysis of production dynamics developed in rural areas of Latin American countries such as Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela. Authors address certain issues that affect (directly and indirectly) rural development and the challenge of consolidating a model that seeks the satisfaction of needs, employment and well-being of peasant populations. Such issues include large estate, conflict, production endeavors, internationalization, retail marketing, and environmental impacts. To highlight some results, it is concluded that: a) the large estate model is changeless in time, b) production endeavors in Production Transformation Plans lead to important results in local production, c) there are specific groups of agricultural and agro industrial products with high export potential in the country, d) the case of Mexican retail marketing companies allows to identify variables that highly affect marketers’ capital structure, and e) the diagnosis made in the Venezuelan case shows possible negative environmental impacts as a consequence of extractive activities in rural areas.
