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1st Edition

The Anthropology of Resource Extraction

Edited By Lorenzo D'Angelo, Robert Jan Pijpers Copyright 2022
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge
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This book offers an overview of the key debates in the burgeoning anthropological literature on resource extraction. Resources play a crucial role in the contemporary economy and society, are required in the production of a vast range of consumer products and are at the core of geopolitical strategies and environmental concerns for the future of humanity. Scholars have widely debated the... Read more

Preface

1. The Anthropology of Resource Extraction: An Introduction
Lorenzo D’Angelo and Robert Jan Pijpers

2. Corporations
Elana Shever

3. Development
Robert Jan Pijpers

4. Environmental Change
Mark Nuttall

5. Governance
Jeroen Cuvelier, Sara Geenen and Boris Verbrugge

6. Materiality and Substances
Elizabeth Ferry

7. Mineworkers
Benjamin Rubbers

8. Positionality and Ethics
Nick Bainton and Emilia E. Skrzypek

9. Sustainability
Cristiano Lanzano

10. Technology
Lorenzo D’Angelo

11. Underground
Sabine Luning

12. Water and Conflict
Fabiana Li and Teresa A. Velásquez

13. Final Reflections and Future Agendas
Robert Jan Pijpers and Dinah Rajak

Biography

Lorenzo D’Angelo is Assistant Professor in the Department of History Anthropology Religions Art History, Media and Performing Arts, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Robert Jan Pijpers is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg, Germany.

"This stellar collection digs deep into prior scholarship on resource extraction and unearths bold new agendas for future research."
Stuart Kirsch, author of Mining Capitalism　

"A nuanced, rich account, The Anthropology of Resource Extraction brings together leading scholars to make valuable contributions to key theoretical debates, while emphasizing the value of ethnography for understanding the practice of extraction."
Eleanor Fisher, Head of Research, Nordic Africa Institute

"The Anthropology of Resource Extraction is certain to become a classic for scholars interested in the entangled social and environmental worlds of humans and non-renewable minerals. Taking a thematic approach to the analysis of our utter dependence upon minerals for contemporary livelihoods, this volume brings together leading scholars in anthropology to review the state of resource extraction today. Topics ranging from corporations, to the environment, to governance, to water, are treated with a fine-grained ethnographic attention to the explosion of interest in extractivism in the 21st century."
Jerry K. Jacka, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Boulder, U.S.A.

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