TY  - BOOK
ED  - Shapiro, Judith
ED  - McNeish, John-Andrew
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.4324/9781003127611
ID  - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20210503_9781000391589_2
KW  - Development economics and emerging economies
KW  - Extractive industries
KW  - Environmental economics
KW  - Business and Management
KW  - Nature and the natural world: general interest
KW  - Applied ecology
KW  - Environmental management
KW  - Environmental policy and protocols
KW  - Environmental science, engineering and technology
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/686256c7-10a0-4916-8562-c1860a5b906c/9781000391589.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48472
PB  - Taylor & Francis
PY  - 2021
SN  - 9781000391589
SN  - 9780367650537
SN  - 9780367650520
SN  - 9781003127611
TI  - Our Extractive Age : Expressions of Violence and Resistance
ER  - 
