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Published: 28 August 2013
DOI: 10.1215/9780822377405-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7740-5
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By Lesley Gill
... neoliberalism extractive industries narco-paramilitarism class dispossession ...
Book Chapter

By Lesley Gill
Published: 26 February 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374701-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7470-1
... the world. Barrancabermeja illustrates how the upward redistribution of global wealth emerges from a wellspring of imposed disorder and how the spatial coordinates of class power in Colombia have recohered around regional development poles based in extractive industries. These nodes of capitalist power...
Published: 28 March 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060581-024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6058-1
... scenarios, while also facilitating extractive industries. As a digital iteration on ecosystem services, automated environments zero in on the essential functionalities of ecologies and in turn augment and automate these processes so as to ensure an optimal cascade of ecological operations. community...
Published: 22 September 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027126-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9367-1
.... Rather than considering the need for just transitions only after the loss of industrial jobs, visions for just petrochemical transformations need to be more proactive, speaking to wider degrowth themes of well-being, and prosperity without extractive growth. ...
Published: 29 March 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059288-010
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5928-8
... Chapter 9 examines the work epistemic categories and material circumstances do in creating inhuman(e) ledgers, made in recursive geographies of value of natural resources to stabilize both persons and land for extraction. It looks at how the material disidentification and dividuation of natural...
Published: 29 March 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5928-8
... geographies earth inhuman epistemologies Frantz Fanon Chapter 9 examines the work epistemic categories and material circumstances do in creating inhuman(e) ledgers, made in recursive geographies of value of natural resources to stabilize both persons and land for extraction. It looks at how...
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By Salar Mameni
Series: ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
Published: 04 August 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2704-1
...Terracene Part 1 theorizes the notion of Terracene: a neologism that historicizes the Anthropocene in relation to the war on terror. It argues that the scientific-industrial-military complex has built upon centuries of settler-colonial impositions across the globe and have turned the planet...
Published: 29 March 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059288-012
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5928-8
... and juridical space became concomitant with forms of energy extraction, and both involved spatial epistemologies that placed race as a tactic of governance between the plateau and the rift. Historically, this chapter examines how the carceral mine became a profitable model of relation on which to make racial...
Published: 19 July 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059493-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5949-3
... for the purposes of diplomatic exchange. His altered variants palpably connected Diné efforts to protect sacred homelands from military-industrial incursions to the acceleration of sand mining to feed a global building boom in countries abroad. Stevens grasped sandpaintings’ potential to heal an out-of-balance...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-037
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... Bentham, Gaetano Filangieri, Montesquieu, and Jean-Baptiste Say. The Villager questioned whether Bolivia was really independent and free, painting a portrait of “misery” five years after independence: the mining industry was in ruins and the manufacturing and agricultural sectors in decline...
Published: 24 February 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7329-2
... when the depoliticization of the public sphere in Japan loomed on the horizon. In so doing, it reopens the question of the nation as well as sheds light on an increasing preoccupation of intellectuals and writers of the time: the growing prominence of the cultural industries, the shifts occurring...
Published: 09 March 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375869-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7586-9
... of mineral wealth within its territory. Shifts in global investment flows, neoliberal reforms, and innovations in mining technologies have expanded the frontiers of extraction into areas formerly used for agriculture and farming. A review of literatures in science studies, political ecology...
Book Chapter

By Jen Rose Smith
Series: Elements
Published: 11 April 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060758-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6075-8
... Chapter 2, “Ice as Data,” focuses on how climate and Arctic scientists extract and study ice cores. Ice cores are ice cylinders removed from glaciers and ice sheets and read by scientists to tell global environmental narratives that speculate on future climate worlds. Within ice core narrations...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... Spanish conquistadors. He supplemented his information by interviewing Inka nobles in Cuzco and was generally sympathetic to Inka perspectives, as this extract from his chronicle suggests. His general account of mitimaes applies well to the southern Andes, and he includes specific examples of lowland...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... by the Spanish upper crust; a fortune seeker who entered into a pact with the Devil; a Spanish woman who chewed coca and practiced witchcraft; a wicked wife who poisoned her unsuspecting husband only to be redeemed by her countrymen for being a creole, and so on. Writing at a time of urban and industrial decline...