30 pm (GMT)
EXALT is excited to host a book launch for Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance edited by Judith Shapiro and John-Andrew McNeish. Join us for this exciting event to hear about and discuss the content of this groundbreaking volume. The event includes an introduction by the editors, short interventions by the chapter authors, and an interactive Q&A session with the audience.
Time: Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 4pm - 5.30pm GMT
Zoom link: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/69378967405?pwd=MzVDV2JQY1dIazNHT1Z3TDdEU1FrZz09 Passcode: EXALT
Our Extractive Age emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life. It records the increasing rates of brutal suppression of local environmental and labor activists in rural and urban sites of extraction and recognizes related violence in areas we might not expect. Contributors argue that extractive violence—visible, symbolic, and structural—is not an accident or side effect, but rather it is a core logic of the 21st century planetary experience. This book also explores how much of the new violence of extraction has become cloaked in the discourse of "green development," "green building," and “green technologies,” which often depend on the continuance of social exploitation and the contaminating practices of non-renewable extraction. The volume also presents that resistance is as multi-scalar and heterogeneous as the violence it inspires.
Find the Open Access book here.
Introduction: The Violence of a Hyper-Extractive Age
John-Andrew McNeish and Judith Shapiro
Part One: Theorizing Violence in an Extractive Age
1. Extraction and Extractivisms: Definitions and Concepts
Francesco Durante, Markus Kröger, and William LaFleur
2. The Politics of Violence in Extractivism: Space, Time, and Normativity
Katharina Glaab and Kirsti Stuvøy
3. Thresholds of Injustice: Challenging the Politics of Environmental Postponement
Paul Wapner
Part Two: Exacerbated Violence at the Local Level
4. Empowerment or Imposition? Extractive Violence, Indigenous Peoples, and the Paradox of Prior Consultation
Philippe Le Billon and Nicholas Middeldorp
5. Leveraging Law and Life: Criminalization of Agrarian Movements and the Escazú Agreement
Garrett Graddy-Lovelace
6. Extraction and the Built Environment: Violence and Other Social Consequences of Construction
Vicky Kiechel
Part Three: New Ways of Thinking about Extraction
7. Rethinking Extractivism on China’s Belt and Road: Food, Tourism, and Talent
Yifei Li and Judith Shapiro
8. Granting Rights to Rivers in Colombia:: Significance for ExtrACTIVISM and Governance
Whitney Richardson and John-Andrew McNeish
9. Extractivism at Your Fingertips
Christopher W. Chagnon, Sophia E. Hagolani-Albov, and Saana Hokkanen
10. Carbon Removal and the Dangers of Extractivism
Simon Nicholson
Part Four: Frontier Spaces
11. Hyper-Extractivism and the Global Oil Assemblage: Visible and Invisible Networks in Frontier Spaces
Michael J. Watts