
To the Last Drop - Affective Economies of Extraction and Sentimentality
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Published on 7. July 2023
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300 pages
978-3-8376-6410-2 (ISBN)
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The romance of extraction underlies and partly defines Western modernity and our cultural imaginaries. Combining affect studies and environmental humanities, this volume analyzes societies' devotion to extraction and fossil resources. This devotion is shaped by a nostalgic view on settler colonialism as well as by contemporary »affective economies« (Sara Ahmed). The contributors examine the links between forms of extractivism and gendered discourses of sentimentality and the ways in which cultural narratives and practices deploy the sentimental mode (in plots of attachment, sacrifice, and suffering) to promote or challenge extractivism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bielefeld
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Klappenbroschur
Illustrations
8
8 farbige Abbildungen
20 Farbabbildungen
Dimensions
Height: 22.5 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Weight
468 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8376-6410-2 (9783837664102)
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Axelle Germanaz | Daniela Gutiérrez Fuentes | Sarah Marak
To the Last Drop - Affective Economies of Extraction and Sentimentality
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Axelle Germanaz, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Deutschland
Daniela Gutiérrez Fuentes, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Deutschland
Sarah Marak, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Deutschland
Sarah Marak is a lecturer in American studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Among her research areas and interests are the environmental humanities, critical terrorism studies, social movements, and sentimentality.
Heike Paul, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Deutschland
Heike Paul (Prof. Dr.), geb. 1968, ist Lehrstuhlinhaberin für Amerikanistik an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Forschungsaufenthalte und Gastprofessuren führten sie nach Cambridge (MA), Los Angeles (CA) und Hanover (NH). Sie ist u.a. Sprecherin des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs »Das Sentimentale in Literatur, Kultur und Politik« und erhielt 2018 den Leibniz-Preis.
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