Resource rebellions stem from a clash between short-term extractors and long-term residents

Evidence

I would argue, then, that the exponential upsurge in indigenous resource rebellions across the globe during the high age of neoliberalism has resulted largely from a clash of temporal perspectives between the short-termers who arrive (with their official landscape maps) to extract, despoil, and depart and the long-termers who must live inside the ecological aftermath and must therefore weigh wealth differently in time’s scales. In the pages that follow, I will highlight and explore resource rebellions against developer-dispossessors who descend from other time zones to impose on habitable environments unsustainable calculations about what constitutes the duration of human gain. Change is a cultural constant but the pace of change is not. Hence the temporal contests over how to sustain, regenerate, exhaust, or obliterate the landscape as resource become critical. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 51

Categorization

• XREF: The temporal clash echoes Grafting & Growth’s concern with slow time against fast capital—trees as long-termers versus extractors. — connects to: Environmental conflict arises when official extraction-driven landscapes override vernacular community maps — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 50; Extractive theft without basic infrastructure delivery provokes rebellion — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 113; Resource depletion, distrust, and ethnic politics jointly trigger social unrest — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 1163 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Extractive theft without basic infrastructure delivery provokes rebellion #expands (0.95) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 113
• Extractors exempt themselves from local exchange cultures and show incuriosity toward inhabitants #expands (0.90) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 241
• Enclave economies centered on resource extraction become privileged spaces of war #corroborates (0.85) — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 134
• Abuse of land stems from regarding it as owned commodity rather than community #expands (0.80) — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 10
• Resource depletion, distrust, and ethnic politics jointly trigger social unrest #qualifies (0.75) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 1163
• The world’s ethnic diversity and natural resource wealth coincide geographically with extractive violence #corroborates (0.75) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 1376
• Long domination produces adjustment to rather than rebellion #qualifies (0.75) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2121