Extraction/Exclusion
Beyond Binaries of Exclusion and Inclusion in Natural Resource Extraction
Published on 24. November 2023
Book
Hardback
358 pages
978-1-78661-536-7 (ISBN)
Description
Extraction/Exclusion draws and builds on scholarship from across the social sciences to show that natural resource extraction is predicated on exclusions. This innovative workportrays how inclusionary language and practices paradoxically often result in further exclusions, concealing unchanged systems of domination and dispossession and reproducing violent exploitative processes on the ground.
Reviews / Votes
Extraction/Exclusion draws upon a deep lineage of research on governing extractive economies but offers something new and exciting. Rather than deploying the standard binaries, the contributors, scholars and activists both, explore the dialectical relations in which exclusion and inclusion operate simultaneously in suturing companies, communities, stakeholders, and governments into complex, dynamic, and unstable extractive assemblages. In making use of a heady mix of feminist and decolonial theory while attentive to questions of Indigeneity, racial capitalism, and scale, this rich collection of case studies drawn from the Global North and South, offers fresh insight into contemporary natural resource extraction. -- Michael Watts, Class of 63 Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley Resource extraction relies on multiple forms of exclusion, some overt and some hidden. Extraction/Exclusion provides sharp and critically important scalar, historical, socio-ecological, and ontological analyses that unearth and upend narratives that undergird many 'green' development projects and climate 'solutions.' This edited volume is necessary reading for policymakers, non-governmental and governmental bodies, scholars, and activists seeking to become better informed about violent exploitations and dispossessions occurring globally. -- Farhana Sultana, Syracuse University At a time when promises and projects of 'just transition,' 'fair trade gold,' and 'green coal' abound, this impressive volume makes a crucial intervention by asking us to consider what inclusionary rhetoric and practices actually do. Examining how forms of inclusion and exclusion are produced, experienced, and challenged across a broad range of natural resource extraction sites, the authors urge us to move beyond simple binaries that not only have come to define corporate and governmental attempts to address the ills in resource extraction, but also continue to go unchallenged in much of the dominant scholarship on this topic. A great resource for teaching, this volume is poised to make an important contribution to scholarship, far beyond any single discipline. -- Mette High, University of St AndrewsMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
9 b/w photos; 3 tables
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
735 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78661-536-7 (9781786615367)
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Stephanie Postar | Negar Elodie Behzadi | Nina Nikola Doering
Extraction/Exclusion
Beyond Binaries of Exclusion and Inclusion in Natural Resource Extraction
E-Book
11/2023
1st Edition
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
€111.99
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Stephanie Postar | Negar Elodie Behzadi | Nina Nikola Doering
Extraction/Exclusion
Beyond Binaries of Exclusion and Inclusion in Natural Resource Extraction
E-Book
11/2023
1st Edition
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
€111.99
Available for download
Persons
Stephanie Postar is an environmental anthropologist specializing in energy and natural resources in the Global South. She is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Negar Elodie Behzadi is a lecturer in human geography at the University of Bristol. She is a feminist political geographer and political ecologist whose work focuses on how intersectional forms of exclusion and marginalization are produced, reproduced, and contested in stressed environments.
Nina Nikola Doering works as research group leader of the Arctic Governance research group at the Research Institute for Sustainability - Helmholtz Centre Potsdam (RIFS) in Potsdam, Germany. Her current research focuses on knowledge co-creation and research ethics.
Negar Elodie Behzadi is a lecturer in human geography at the University of Bristol. She is a feminist political geographer and political ecologist whose work focuses on how intersectional forms of exclusion and marginalization are produced, reproduced, and contested in stressed environments.
Nina Nikola Doering works as research group leader of the Arctic Governance research group at the Research Institute for Sustainability - Helmholtz Centre Potsdam (RIFS) in Potsdam, Germany. Her current research focuses on knowledge co-creation and research ethics.
Content
Introduction: Challenging Inclusion as a Solution to Exclusion in Natural Resource Extraction (by Negar Elodie Behzadi, Stephanie Postar, and Nina Nikola Doering)
Part I: Haves/Have Nots: Unsettling the Political Ecologies of Extraction (by Philippe Le Billon, Stephanie Postar, and Negar Elodie Behzadi)
Chapter 1: Managing Gold Extraction Through Technocratic Discourse in Post-Socialist Kyrgyzstan (by Asel Doolotkeldieva)
Chapter 2: A Political Ecology of Environmental Law Enforcement: Civil Complaints and Environmental Justice in Post-Neoliberal Ecuador (by Teresa Bornschlegl)
Part II: Oppressors/Oppressed: Gender, Race, and the Extractive Body (by Rebecca Elmhirst)
Chapter 3: A Decolonial Feminist Dialogue-As-Critique: Against the Sexual and Racialised Violence at the Heart of Extractivism (by Amber Murrey and Sharlene Mollett)
Chapter 4: Young Female Miners in Tajikistani Coal Mines: Intersectional Extractive Violence and Ecologies of Exhaustion (by Negar Elodie Behzadi)
Part III: Human/Non-Human: The More Than Human (by Emilie Cameron)
Chapter 5: Extractive Industries, Impact Assessments, and Exclusion in Northwest Greenland (by Mark Nuttall)
Chapter 6: Intimate Encounters with Uranium at an Anticipated Uranium Mine in Tanzania (by Stephanie Postar)
Part IV: Static Materials/Dynamic Materials: Resource Materialities, Temporalities, and Affect (by Gisa Weszkalnys)
Chapter 7: Contested Futures in British Columbia's Hydro-Extractive Corridor: Progress, Pragmatism, and Visionary Activism (by Anna J. Willow)
Chapter 8: Zinc's Time in the Sun? Tracing the Reopening of the Riso and Parina Valleys' Mines from Precarious Optimisms to Affective Indeterminacy (by Robin West and Isabel Crowhurst)
Part V: Large-Scale/Small-Scale: Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt)
Chapter 9: Artisanal and Large-Scale Mine Relations: Laying the Groundwork for Autonomous Coexistence in Sub-Saharan Africa (by Gavin Hilson, John Owen, Titus Sauerwein, Massaran Traore, and Eleonore Lebre)
Chapter 10: Negotiating Inclusion and Exclusion in Artisanal Oil Extraction: The Case of Two Villages in East Java, Indonesia (by Nanang Kuniawan, Paeivi Lujala, and Stale Angen Rye)
Part VI: Inclusion/Exclusion: Precarious Resource Inclusions (by Penda Diallo)
Chapter 11: Contractual Violence: Impact-Benefit Agreements and the Violent Exclusions Hidden by "Consent" (by Leah S. Horowitz)
Chapter 12: In the Ebbs and Flows of Resource Extraction, Who Is a Stakeholder? Insights from West Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) (by Nina Nikola Doering)
Conclusion: Extractive Orientations (by Gavin Bridge)
About the Authors
Part I: Haves/Have Nots: Unsettling the Political Ecologies of Extraction (by Philippe Le Billon, Stephanie Postar, and Negar Elodie Behzadi)
Chapter 1: Managing Gold Extraction Through Technocratic Discourse in Post-Socialist Kyrgyzstan (by Asel Doolotkeldieva)
Chapter 2: A Political Ecology of Environmental Law Enforcement: Civil Complaints and Environmental Justice in Post-Neoliberal Ecuador (by Teresa Bornschlegl)
Part II: Oppressors/Oppressed: Gender, Race, and the Extractive Body (by Rebecca Elmhirst)
Chapter 3: A Decolonial Feminist Dialogue-As-Critique: Against the Sexual and Racialised Violence at the Heart of Extractivism (by Amber Murrey and Sharlene Mollett)
Chapter 4: Young Female Miners in Tajikistani Coal Mines: Intersectional Extractive Violence and Ecologies of Exhaustion (by Negar Elodie Behzadi)
Part III: Human/Non-Human: The More Than Human (by Emilie Cameron)
Chapter 5: Extractive Industries, Impact Assessments, and Exclusion in Northwest Greenland (by Mark Nuttall)
Chapter 6: Intimate Encounters with Uranium at an Anticipated Uranium Mine in Tanzania (by Stephanie Postar)
Part IV: Static Materials/Dynamic Materials: Resource Materialities, Temporalities, and Affect (by Gisa Weszkalnys)
Chapter 7: Contested Futures in British Columbia's Hydro-Extractive Corridor: Progress, Pragmatism, and Visionary Activism (by Anna J. Willow)
Chapter 8: Zinc's Time in the Sun? Tracing the Reopening of the Riso and Parina Valleys' Mines from Precarious Optimisms to Affective Indeterminacy (by Robin West and Isabel Crowhurst)
Part V: Large-Scale/Small-Scale: Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt)
Chapter 9: Artisanal and Large-Scale Mine Relations: Laying the Groundwork for Autonomous Coexistence in Sub-Saharan Africa (by Gavin Hilson, John Owen, Titus Sauerwein, Massaran Traore, and Eleonore Lebre)
Chapter 10: Negotiating Inclusion and Exclusion in Artisanal Oil Extraction: The Case of Two Villages in East Java, Indonesia (by Nanang Kuniawan, Paeivi Lujala, and Stale Angen Rye)
Part VI: Inclusion/Exclusion: Precarious Resource Inclusions (by Penda Diallo)
Chapter 11: Contractual Violence: Impact-Benefit Agreements and the Violent Exclusions Hidden by "Consent" (by Leah S. Horowitz)
Chapter 12: In the Ebbs and Flows of Resource Extraction, Who Is a Stakeholder? Insights from West Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) (by Nina Nikola Doering)
Conclusion: Extractive Orientations (by Gavin Bridge)
About the Authors