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Markus Kröger s a professor of Global Development Studies at the Univeristy of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Helsinki in Political Science (World Politics) in 2010 and received the title of Docent in Development Studies from University of Helsinki in 2014. He has worked as a researcher at UC Berkeley (visiting scholar in Sociology, Latin American Studies, and Political Science), the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (postdoc in Forestry), the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (postdoc in Economics), and has been a faculty member in the Anthropology and Political Science Departments at the University of Helsinki. He is one of the founding members of the Global Extractivisms and Alternatives Initiative (exalt.fi). He has published extensively on the political economy of development and natural resource extraction, social movements, and forestry and mining policies. He has published four monographs.

His first book, Contentious Agency and Natural Resource Politics (Routledge, 2013), discussed the global industrial forestry sector and its conflict dynamics, particularly in Brazil. The focus was on the resistance to global tree plantation expansion. His second book, Iron Will: Global Extractivism and Mining Resistance in Brazil and India (University of Michigan Press, 2020), presents a theory of investment politics and spatial causalities to explain the strategies through which social movements succeed in their resistance, focusing on iron ore and steel production. His third book, Studying Complex Interactions and Outcomes Through Qualitative Comparative Analysis: A Practical Guide to Comparative Case Studies and Ethnographic Data Analysis (Routledge, 2021) is a hands-on methodological guidebook on how to conduct systematic comparisons and research on complex case studies. His latest book, Extractivisms, Existences and Extinctions: Monoculture Plantations and Amazon Deforestation (Routledge, 2022), offers a new theory on the political economy of existences, merging the scholarship on political ontology, world-ecology, extractivism, and agrarian political economy.


 * Extractivisms, Existences and Extinctions: Monoculture Plantations and Amazon Deforestation (Routledge) 2022, Open Access.
 * Studying Complex Interactions and Outcomes Through Qualitative Comparative Analysis: A Practical Guide to Comparative Case Studies and Ethnographic Data Analysis (Routledge) 2021.
 * Iron Will – Global Extractivism and Mining Resistance in Brazil and India (University of Michigan Press) 2020, Open Access.
 * Contentious Agency and Natural Resource Politics (Routledge) 2013, Open Access.