Mobilizations around extractivism. Circulation and heuristic potential of a concept in the process of globalization

At the heart of our lifestyle and contemporary political economy, extractive industries have been the subject of significant social mobilizations in different parts of the world. To deal with the global and local dimensions of the phenomenon, we propose to extend the concept of extractivism beyond its initial Latin American context. We adopt a comparative, multi-scalar, and global-oriented approach, which allows us to incorporate insights from political ecology in order to understand extractivism mobilizations, as shown by the articles gathered in this issue. A comparative reading of these papers highlights several central aspects of this type of social mobilization: the usefulness of the concept of extractivism for analyzing a global process, the multi-scalar dimension of the analysis of social mobilizations, the diversification of the framing of collective action, and the relationship between extractive industries and mobilizations.