School of Politics and International Relations

Dr Jeffery Webber, Profits, coercion, and resistance in Latin America

21 March 2017

Dr Jeffery Webber, a Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at QMUL, discusses the release of his co-authored new book, ‘Blood of Extraction: Canadian Imperialism in Latin America’. He says: “Our fundamental analytical and empirical concern in Blood of Extraction is the role assumed by the Canadian state within the worldwide system of capitalist imperialism in relation to Latin America… We trace the increasingly aggressive insertion of the Canadian state and capital into the complex political economy of Latin America, with a particular focus on two sub-regions: Central America and the Andes.”
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