The project’s research collaborators are currently editing a collected volume of stories of resistance entitled Corporate Strategies and Community Resistance: Cases and Keywords of Extraction in the Americas. The manuscript will be published by Bristol University Press’s Business Finance and Development series in 2027.

The short vignettes are stories from activists and researchers which expose the strategies that extractive firms employ to gain access to contested spaces and territories today. Examples are varied, including environmental impact assessments, police injunctions, risk finance, trade agreement terms, physical repression, subcontracting to state firms and Indigenous affairs ministries, among other tactics.

Chapters detail how firms use these strategies and how organizations and communities contest them, drawing on examples from research and lived experiences in continental North and Central America and the Caribbean. The volume aims to provide information and analysis to students, impacted communities and activists seeking to navigate and resist these strategies firms use to secure licenses and social permissions of extraction.

Stay tuned for more updates as the volume comes together!