Towards a critical cultural political economy of extractivism in the Americas and beyond

• Critical Cultural Political Economy is very suited to analyze extractivism. • The surge of the concept of extractivism is only partially related to extractive investments. • Extractivism is central to the negative view of resources. • Opposition to extractive projects has generated and anti-extractivist moment in the Americas. • Expanded extractivism misinterprets externality with respect to value production.