Blockadia is a global anti-extractivism movement;[1] and a roving, transnational conflict zone where everyday people obstruct development of extractive projects, especially in the fossil fuel industry.
These scholars say that tar sands’ contributions to global warming and ecological destruction constitute an assault on humans and other species, including local residents and First Nations communities.
Klein popularised the term in her 2014 book This Changes Everything to describe a “roving transnational conflict zone…where regular people…are trying to stop this era of extreme extraction with their bodies or in the courts.” Klein writes that.Blockadia is not a specific location on a map but rather a roving transnational conflict zone that is cropping up with increasing frequency and intensity wherever extractive projects are attempting to dig and drill, whether for open-pit mines, or gas fracking, or tar sands oil pipelines.
[5][7] Civil society in South Africa has restructured its challenges to state-supported extractivist projects with Blockadia tactics in response to the Marikana massacre of mine workers in 2012.
[3] Martinez Alier and other scholars describe Blockadia as a network of glocal campaigns with a deeply democratic approach: participants are aware of the connections between local injustice and the global climate crisis.