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  From Extractivism to Global Extractivism : The Evolution of an Organizing Concept 

  Chagnon, Christopher W.; Durante, Francesco; Gills, Barry K.; Hagolani-Albov, Sophia E.; Hokkanen, Saana; Kangasluoma, Sohvi M. J.; Konttinen, Heidi; Kröger, Markus; LaFleur, William; Ollinaho, Ossi; Vuola, Marketta P. S. (2022)

  Research on extractivism has rapidly proliferated, expanding into new empirical and conceptual spaces. We examine the origins, evolution, and conceptual expansion of the concept. Extractivism is useful to analyze resource extraction practices around the world. ‘Global Extractivism’ is a new conceptual tool for assessing global phenomena. We situate extractivism within an ensemble of concepts, and explore its relation to development, the state, and value. Extractivism as an organizing concept addresses many fields of research. Extractivism forms a complex of self-reinforcing practices, mentalities, and power differentials underwriting and rationalizing socio-ecologically destructive modes of organizing life-through subjugation, depletion, and non-reciprocity.
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  Stratifying Academia : Ranking, Oligarchy, and the Market-Myth in Academic Audit Regimes 

  Welsh, John W (2021)

  This historical materialist analysis places rankings into the imperatives both to govern and to accumulate, and positions academic ranking in particular as the telos of a more general audit culture. By identifying how rankings effect not merely a quantification of qualities, but a numeration of quantities, we can expose how state governments, managerial strata and political elites achieve socially stratifying political objectives that actually frustrate the kind of market-rule for which rankings have been hitherto legitimised among the public. The insight here is that rankings make of audit techniques neither simply a market proxy, nor merely the basis for bureaucratic managerialism, but a social technology or 'apparatus' (dispositif) that simultaneously substitutes and frustrates market operations in favour of a more acutely stratified social order. This quality to the operation of rankings can then be connected to the chronic accumulation crisis that is the neoliberal regime of political economy, and to the growing political appetite therein for power-knowledge techniques propitious for oligarchy formation and accumulation-by-dispossession in the kind of low-growth and zero-sum environment typical in real terms to societies dominated by financialisation. A dialectical approach to rankings is suggested, so that a more effective engagement with their internal and practical contradictions can be realised in a way that belies the market-myths of neoliberal theory.
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  Политический кризис в России: модели выхода 

  Gel'man, Vladimir; Dobronravin, N.A.; Kolonitskij, B.I.; Travin, D.J. (European University at St.Petersburg Press, 2012)

  The discussion on ongoing political crisis in Russia is suffered due to the lack of its placement into a comparative perspective. A collective project of scholars from the European University at St.Petersburg is aimed to understand it through the prism of analysis of similarilities and differences with political crises in other states and nations, including those of Russia's past. Which lessons for a contemporary Russia might be learned upon experience of seven cases (Poland, South Korea, Brazil, Mexico, Soviet Union, Tsarist Russia, and Weimar Germany)?