Purpose

This paper aims to introduce the special issue “Extractivism and the Links between International Business and People’s Struggles,” which is part of our joint research efforts oriented to advance critical knowledge on the impacts and strategies of extractive transnational corporations and social struggles against them.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper presents and discusses contemporary aspects of extractivism and their impacts on nature and livelihood. In a second moment, it introduces and reflects on the four articles that compose the special issue “Extractivism and the Links between International Business and People’s Struggles”.

Findings

Extractivism is destructive of nature and livelihoods. As reaction to its destructive logic, millions of people have organized to struggle against extractivist projects around the world. The publication of this special issue is part of authors’ joint research efforts oriented to advance critical knowledge on the impacts and strategies of extractive corporations and social struggles against them. The lessons that the authors learned in their research and their experiences in these struggles were the key motivating factors that led them to organize this special issue, exploring radical alternatives to extractivism, alternatives that have as fundamental criterion the production and reproduction of life.

Originality/value

The value of this introduction is to present and discuss the four articles of the special issue “Extractivism and the Links between International Business and People’s Struggles,” which compose a rich mosaic of themes that emerge in the struggles against extractive projects worldwide, creating a relevant picture of the main defies imposed by extractivism and its negative impacts, from political corporate social responsibility to discourses, from relational ontology to the relations among state, corporations and social movements.

中文翻译：

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竞争采掘主义：国际商业和人们对采掘业的斗争

目的

本文旨在介绍特刊“采掘主义和国际商业与人民斗争之间的联系”，这是我们联合研究工作的一部分，旨在推进关于采掘跨国公司的影响和战略以及反对它们的社会斗争的关键知识。

设计/方法/方法

本文介绍并讨论了采掘主义的当代方面及其对自然和生计的影响。紧接着，它介绍并反思了组成特刊“Extractivism and the Links between International Business and People's Struggles”的四篇文章。

发现

采掘主义破坏了自然和生计。作为对其破坏性逻辑的反应，数百万人组织起来反对世界各地的采掘主义项目。本期特刊的出版是作者联合研究工作的一部分，旨在推进关于采掘公司的影响和战略以及反对它们的社会斗争的关键知识。作者在研究中吸取的教训以及他们在这些斗争中的经历是促使他们组织本期特刊的关键激励因素，他们探索了采掘主义的激进替代方案，这些替代方案以生命的生产和再生产为基本标准。

原创性/价值

这篇介绍的价值在于介绍和讨论特刊“采掘主义和国际商业与人民斗争之间的联系”的四篇文章，它们构成了世界范围内反对采掘项目斗争中出现的丰富主题，创造了一个相关的从政治企业社会责任到话语，从关系本体论到国家、企业和社会运动之间的关系，采掘主义强加的主要挑战及其负面影响。