Grassroots Responses to Extractivism : Case Studies from Around the World

Samuel Grant has been an organizer working through the intersections of environmental, economic, racial, gender and cultural justice for decades. Since 1990 he has been on faculty at Metropolitan State University, USA, where he created the Minor in Community Organizing and Development. He currently leads MN350 as Executive Director. He is also a fellow of the Institute of the Environment, University of Minnesota, USA.

Felix Mantz is a doctoral researcher and teaching associate at Queen Mary University of London, UK. His doctoral thesis examines persisting colonial relations to land and ecologies in Tanzania by drawing on a variety of methods, including archival research and interviews. His latest work can be found in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE), Review of International Political Economy (RIPE), and Journal of International Relations and Development (JIRD).

Mariko Frame is an international political economist whose research focuses on critical political economy perspectives on the environment. She is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Merrimack College in Massachusetts, USA.