Extractivism, Neoliberal Governance and Environmental Racism in the Maghreb

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Yasmine Akrimi
NORTH AFRICA ANALYST

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The concept of environmental racism has been popularized in recent years with the new visibility and high politicization of the climate change problematic. Born in the United States in the eighties, it essentially refers to an internal colonial model that exploits the labor and land of colored minorities to the benefit of the dominant class. In the Maghreb, this model mainly performs through extractivism.

 

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