Financialization of Nature in Latin America

Monika Meireles is a full-time senior researcher at the Fiscal and Financial Economics Unit of the Institute for Economic Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).Vania López is a full-time research professor in the Faculty of Economics, teaching in the Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Doctorate in Political Economy of Development, and Doctorate in Solidarity Economics programs at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla.Elizabeth Concha is a professor in the Bachelor’s Degree Programs in Economics, Administration, and Mathematics at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa Campus (UAM-I).Antonio Mendoza is a full-time professor and researcher in the Department of Economics at UAM-I and a professor in the Faculty of Economics (UNAM), as well as a professor in the Graduate Program in Latin American Studies (UNAM) and Social Economics at UAM-I.

• Introduction Part I. Expressions of the financialization of nature in Latin America: transnational mining companies and neoextractivism 1. Geopolitics of the financialization of nature and development in Latin America 2. Latin American contours of financialized neo-extractivism: mining, water and transnational corporations 3. Mining in Latin America, instability and financial dependence 4. Large mining companies in Latin America and extraheccionist dispossession 5. Financialization, mining, and Newmont in Mexico: fool’s gold? Part II. Alternative paths for financing the Latin American energy transition 6. Financing sustainable development in Mexico: theory, fiscal policy, and social finance 7. Carbon markets: the path to energy transition and decarbonization? 8. Energy rent and post-neoliberal forms of economic management and wealth administration 9. Putting care for life at the center: experiences in producing, appropriating, and distributing surplus in the field of economic diversity Index