This session brings together critical geographical perspectives on resource extraction and the contested processes of dispossession. From comparative analyses of land access in the forestry sectors of Brazil and Canada, to mineral exploration in speculative capitalist systems, to the use of environmental assessments to justify extractivism, and to settler-colonial strategies of land control in Palestine and Canada, the papers highlight how extractive regimes rely on structural violence, state support, and colonial legacies. Yet they also underscore the spaces where resistance, alternative narratives, and anti-colonial futures emerge.

• 3:00 PM
  Access and Control of Land in the Timber Industry: A Comparative Study Between Brazil and Canada
  Amanda Emiliana Santos Baratelli, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)/Brandon University (BU)

• 3:15 PM
  High Risk, High Reward? Mineral Exploration and Accumulation
  Merle Davis Matthews, University of Minnesota

• 3:30 PM
  Environmental Assessment, Extractivism and the Rise of Critical Minerals in Canada
  Rosemary Collard, Simon Fraser University

• 3:45 PM
  Settler Colonial Ruralization and Agricultural Violence in the West Bank
  Oren Shlomo, The Open University of Israel

• 4:00 PM
  Securing the Woods at Ada’itsx/Fairy Creek: Geographies of Carceral Power in Canada’s Timber Industry
  Kyla Piccin, University of Cambridge