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Our Extractive Age - Expressions of Violence and Resistance (Paperback)
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Our Extractive Age - Expressions of Violence and Resistance (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
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Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance
emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural
resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life.
Chronicling the increasing rates of brutal suppression of local
environmental and labor activists in rural and urban sites of
extraction, this volume also foregrounds related violence in areas
we might not expect, such as infrastructural developments,
protected areas for nature conservation, and even geoengineering in
the name of carbon mitigation. Contributors argue that extractive
violence is not an accident or side effect, but rather a core logic
of the 21st Century planetary experience. Acknowledgement is made
not only of the visible violence involved in the securitization of
extractive enclaves, but also of the symbolic and structural
violence that the governance, economics, and governmentality of
extraction have produced. Extractive violence is shown not only to
be a spectacular event, but an extended dynamic that can be silent,
invisible, and gradual. The volume also recognizes that much of the
new violence of extraction has become cloaked in the discourse of
"green development," "green building," and efforts to mitigate the
planetary environmental crisis through totalizing technologies.
Ironically, green technologies and other contemporary efforts to
tackle environmental ills often themselves depend on the
continuance of social exploitation and the contaminating practices
of non-renewable extraction. But as this volume shows, resistance
is also as multi-scalar and heterogeneous as the violence it
inspires. The book is essential reading for activists and for
students and scholars of environmental politics, natural resource
management, political ecology, sustainable development, and
globalization.
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