Degrowth and Decolonizing Extractivism

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract Without a deeper transformation, the ‘green transition’ risks exacerbating many of the well-known impacts of extractivism and consumerism. Much of the mainstream efforts conducted so far seek to reduce the impacts of extraction and to improve the allocation of its costs and benefits. Energy efficiency, material substitutability, and mainstream sustainability approaches such as ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ principles are all laudable, but they can serve to justify yet more extraction and consumption, as in the case of plastics. This chapter engages with more transformational options, drawing from ‘post-extractivism’, decolonial political ecologies, and the degrowth movement. Degrowth not only seek to reduce commodification and excessive consumption but also replace the growth imperative of neoliberal capitalism through alternative economic and social relations. Decolonization offers a political agenda that seeks to uplift Indigenous autonomies, sovereignties, and modes of relating to the land while undoing colonial developmentalist mentalities. As the chapter argues, while conceptually distinct, both degrowth and decolonization are largely complementary, envisioning profound re-imaginations of relationships that move from hegemonic political, economic, cultural, and psychological norms of extractivist societies to relational ways of being in the world.
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Authors Philippe Le Billon
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Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/oso/9780197873434.003.0019
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197873434.003.0019
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