Our extractive age : : expressions of violence and resistance / / edited by Judith Shapiro, John-Andrew McNeish.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:[Place of publication not identified] : : Taylor & Francis (Unlimited),, 2021.
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (280 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Violence of a Hyper-Extractive Age Part One: Theorizing Violence in an Extractive Age
  • 1. Extraction and Extractivisms: Definitions and Concepts
  • 2. The Politics of Violence in Extractivism: Space, Time, and Normativity
  • 3. Thresholds of Injustice: Challenging the Politics of Environmental Postponement Part Two: Exacerbated Violence at the Local Level
  • 4. Empowerment or Imposition? Extractive Violence, Indigenous Peoples, and the Paradox of Prior Consultation
  • 5. Leveraging Law and Life: Criminalization of Agrarian Movements and the Escazu Agreement
  • 6. Extraction and the Built Environment: Violence and Other Social Consequences of Construction Part Three: New Ways of Thinking about Extraction
  • 7. Rethinking Extractivism on China's Belt and Road: Food, Tourism, and Talent
  • 8. Granting Rights to Rivers in Colombia: Significance for ExtrACTIVISM and Governance
  • 9. Extractivism at Your Fingertips
  • 10. Carbon Removal and the Dangers of Extractivism Part Four: Frontier Spaces
  • 11. Hyper-Extractivism and the Global Oil Assemblage: Visible and Invisible Networks in Frontier Spaces.