To continue providing a glossary of terms that are important to think with, this week we are unpacking "extractivism." However, beyond its direct definition we invoke here Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser's discussion of the term. 
Extractivism: "the accelerated extraction of natural resources to satisfy a global demand for minerals and energy and to provide what national governments consider economic growth."

.... "[Extractivism] manifests the contemporary colonial onotological occupation of territories by what John Law has called the *one-world world*: a world that has granted itself the right to assimilate all other worlds and, by presenting itself as exclusive, cancels possibilities for what lies beyond its limits. Exctractivism continues the practice of terra nullius (invading unhinabited land): it actively creates space for the tangible expansion of the one world by rending empty the places it occupies and making absent the worlds that make those places." [...]
.... "Frequently effected through centropolitical alliances between the state and corporations, [extractivism] is said to serve the national common good." Source: Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser, eds. A World of Many Worlds (Durham, NC: Duke University, 2018)