The last four decades have witnessed intense and varied forms of extraction exemplified by ‘land grabbing’, and illicit trade in natural resources and minerals, such as diamonds, coltan and uranium from the Global South. These classic forms of extractions are frequently intensified by military conflict abetted by western business and political interests. Parallel to this, new systems of surveillance have emerged, deployed by powerful nations to assert and maintain global military, economic and political dominance. These conditions often produce new (or revamped old) economic, political and cultural imaginaries and practices resistant to entrenched and emergent forms of extraction, surveillance and subjection. This panel addresses critical and artistic responses to these phenomena.