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This interview was conducted in EnglishFind this interview and its explanatory dossier on our website.Duration: 1h52Thea Riofrancos is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College and a Strategic Co-Director of the Climate and Community Institute. Her research focuses on resource extraction, climate change, the global lithium sector, green technologies, and the Latin American left. She is the author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism and Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador, and the coauthor of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal.In our conversation, Thea shows how renewable and fossil extractivism is not merely a localized operation of resource removal, but an enduring political and economic regime. She highlights the growing fusion of climate goals, industrial imperatives, and geopolitical strategies. It marks a new phase of green capitalism that displaces the failures of market-based mechanisms with tensions of its own.This interview reframes contemporary resource politics within the long arc of extractive geoeconomics, from the oil crisis to Biden’s green policies and Trump 2.0.CHAPTERS:00:00:00 – Introduction to Extractivism, green and brown00:05:58 - (Chap.1) What is extractivism?00:15:27 - (Chap.2) Green and brown mining00:24:30 - (Chap.3) The Security-Sustainability nexus00:40:10 - (Chap.4) Green Capitalism01:03:31 - (Chap.5) History of Geoeconomics01:15:25 - (Chap.6) Ecomodernism vs Degrowth01:23:39 - (Chap.7) Trumps’s Energy Emergency01:28:28 - (Chap.8) Insecurity and unsustainability under Trump 2.001:33:10 - (Chap.9) Critical Mineral Deals from Ukraine to Rwanda01:40:20 - (Chap.10) From Opportunistic Greening to Fossil FascismInterviewed by Marius BickhardtDirected by Sam JonesEditing by Thierry CorroyerProduced by Vladimir GurewichDossier : Marius BickhardtVisual Reasearch : Sophie LinerMusic by Laz Lo, Eeryskies, Damiens SimonsVoice : Amanda BayPodcast production, editing and mixing : Deborah Le GrandSubscribe to our monthly newsletter.To support us, follow and us on social medias:Youtube ‪@Diagrammes‬Instagram : @diagram.me.sBluesky : @diagrammes.bsky.social#TheaRiofrancos #Extractivism #Climate #GreenCapitalism #Diagrammes

This interview was conducted in EnglishFind this interview and its explanatory dossier at LATE NEOLIBERALISM - DIAGRAMMESDuration: 1h57Quinn Slobodian is a professor of history at Boston University and a specialist in neoliberal thought. He is the author of Globalists.The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, Crack-Up Capitalism, Market radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy, and Hayek’s Bastards. Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right.Diagram[me]s invited him to trace the genealogy of trumpism. Rather than portraying Trump as a champion of a populist break with the neoliberalism of the late 20th century, Slobodian depicts him as a beneficiary of that doctrine’s transformations. He shows how the libertarian wing of the neoliberal movement came to stake the future of economic liberalism on curbing migration flows, rehabilitating race-based IQ theories, and strengthening the executive branch at the expense of the rule of law.He also shows how the reconfiguration of financial capitalism after the 2008 crisis first allowed tech entrepreneurs to amass enormous fortunes, and then encouraged them to seize the levers of political power.CHAPTERS:00:00:00 – Introduction to Late Neoliberalism00:05:16 - (Chap.1) The Trump administration: Family Portrait00:16:41 - (Chap.2) The neoliberals’ post-cold war blues00:31:11 - (Chap.3) Human capital management: nativism, IQ, natalism00:51:23 - (Chap.4) Movement of goods: The praise for tariffs 01:07:41 - (Chap.5) On warding off inflation: Gold and Cryptocurrencies01:32:42 - (Chap.6) From legislative encasement to executive privilege01:40:24 - (Chap.7) Nostalgia and technofuturism01:50:19 - (Chap.8) Wrestling as allegoryInterview with Michel FeherConducted on February 1st, 2025Directed by: Thierry CorroyerProduced by: Florence Mention and Aurélie WindelsVisual research: Sophie LinerMusic: Laz Lo and Boni (Introduction); Laz Lo, Eeryskies and Damiens Simons (Credits theme)Voice: Amanda BayPodcast production, editing and mixing : Deborah Le GrandSubscribe to our monthly newsletterTo support us, follow us on social medias:Youtube : ‪@Diagrammes‬Instagram : @diagram.me.sBluesky : @diagrammes.bsky.social#QuinnSlobodian #neoliberalism #trump

Hello and welcome to Diagrammes, an independent bilingual media based in Paris and New York. Because resisting the world’s rightward drift requires us to take the measure of it, Diagram[me]s offers every three weeks, in free access, one or more in-depth interviews with scholars, journalists, and activists.The world is moving rightwards at a staggering pace. Leading this race to the worst is a breed of rulers who make their countries great again by cracking down on their own cities, brutalizing their neighbors and licensing their favorite oligarchs to plunder the planet. Taken alone, however, the ways of a few strong men and their cronies cannot fully explain our current trajectory. Other enablers include moderate politicians ready to reach across any aisle, reasonable experts who confuse impartiality with complacency, and large constituencies eagerly absorbing the phobias stoked by the entrepreneurs of resentment.To hinder these global trends, the first task at hand is to get a better understanding of them, even as the spaces devoted to the critique of common sense are rapidly being defunded or closed. Diagrams thus seeks to join a resilient network of sites still attempting to diagnose our contemporary condition – one where freedoms are corroded in the name of liberty and inequalities are celebrated in the name of the people.With a new episode released every three weeks, Diagrams features in-depth interviews with scholars, journalists and activists. Our aim is to showcase research that illuminates the present and to gain a more lucid perspective on the fault lines of our brave new world.Join us on all major listening platforms, explore the dossiers on our website, subscribe to our monthly newsletter and follow us on social media :Youtube : ‪@Diagrammes‬Instagram : @diagram.me.s Bluesky : @diagrammes.bsky.social Production, editing and mixing by Deborah Le Grand