01420nas a2200109   4500008004100000245010000041210006900141260001200210520099800222100002101220856006901241       2014                        eng d00aFrom building resistance to building alternatives – post-extractivist perspectives from below0 aFrom building resistance to building alternatives postextractivi  aLeipzig3 a<p>In this paper we reflect on post-extractivist alternatives from below taking experiences from Argentina and Brazil as empirical references. These resistances recognize complex genealogies shaped by the historical violence represented in the imaginary geography of development and colonialism. These struggles are plural and multi-scale in articulating specific territorial conflicts with cosmopolitan horizons. Furthermore they are characterized by having a radical power and determination to prevent, neutralize and contest extractivism politics through a variety of strategies. On top of that they demonstrate a common assessment by territorial sovereignty, social justice and reapproppriation of nature that confronts the logic of extractive capital and destruction of nature. In this scenario, compressed between resistance and creation urgencies, these alternatives from below are configured as "experimental fields" that foreshadow societal projects of greater scope and duration.</p>1 aMartín, Facundo  uhttps://degrowth.community/conference2014/scientific-papers/3675