Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance

The book "Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance" highlights how violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life, including brutal suppression of local environmental and labor activists. It argues that extractive violence is not an accident but a core logic of the 21st Century planetary experience, with visible and symbolic violence produced by the governance, economics, and governmentality of extraction. Resistance to this violence is also multi-scalar and heterogeneous.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 280 pages
\n Publication date: 25 May 2021
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance delves into the pervasive nature of violence associated with natural resource extraction in contemporary collective life. Chronicling the escalating rates of brutal suppression of local environmental and labor activists in rural and urban extraction sites, this volume also highlights related violence in unexpected areas, 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 incidental or unintended consequence, but rather a fundamental logic of the 21st-century planetary experience. Acknowledgment is made not only to the visible violence involved in the securitization of extractive enclaves but also to the symbolic and structural violence that the governance, economics, and governmentality of extraction have produced. Extractive violence is demonstrated not only as a spectacular event but also as an extended dynamic that can be silent, invisible, and gradual. The volume also recognizes that much of the new violence of extraction has been 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 address environmental ills often rely on the continuation of social exploitation and the contaminating practices of non-renewable extraction. However, as this volume demonstrates, resistance is equally multi-scalar and heterogeneous as the violence it inspires.

The book is a crucial resource for activists, students, and scholars of environmental politics, natural resource management, political ecology, sustainable development, and global studies. It sheds light on the complex dynamics of power, resistance, and sustainability in the context of extractive industries and provides insights into the strategies and tactics needed to challenge and transform the current extractive order.

\n Weight: 418g\n
Dimension: 155 x 233 x 20 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367650520\n \n