1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography
This Handbook provides an essential guide to the study of resources and their role in socio-environmental change. With original contributions from more than 60 authors with expertise in a wide range of resource types and world regions, it offers a toolkit of conceptual and methodological approaches for documenting, analyzing, and reimagining resources and the worlds with which they are entangled.
The volume has an introduction and four thematic sections. The introductory chapter outlines key trajectories for thinking critically with and about resources. Chapters in Section I, "(Un)knowing resources," offer distinct epistemological entry points and approaches for studying resources. Chapters in Section II, "(Un)knowing resource systems," examine the components and logics of the capitalist systems through which resources are made, circulated, consumed, and disposed of, while chapters in Section III, "Doing critical resource geography: Methods, advocacy, and teaching," focus on the practices of critical resource scholarship, exploring the opportunities and challenges of carrying out engaged forms of research and pedagogy. Chapters in Section IV, "Resource-making/world-making," use case studies to illustrate how things are made into resources and how these processes of resource-making transform socio-environmental life.
This vibrant and diverse critical resource scholarship provides an indispensable reference point for researchers, students, and practitioners interested in understanding how resources matter to the world and to the systems, conflicts, and debates that make and remake it.
Preface: Handbook-Making
Elizabeth Havice, Gabriela Valdivia, and Matthew Himley
1. Critical Resource Geography: An Introduction
Gabriela Valdivia, Matthew Himley, and Elizabeth Havice
SECTION I
(Un)Knowing Resources
2. Chimeras of Resource Geographies: Unbounding Ontologies and Knowing Nature
Helene Ahlborg and Andrea Joslyn Nightingale
3. Knowing the Storyteller: Geohumanities and Critical Resource Geography
Kolson Schlosser
4. Material Worlds Redux: Mobilizing Materiality within Critical Resource Geography
Karen Bakker and Gavin Bridge
5. Temporalities of (Un)Making a Resource: Oil Shales Between Presence and Absence
Kärg Kama
6. Brave New Worms: Orienting (Non)Value in the Parasite Bioeconomy
Skye Naslund and Will McKeithen
7. Resources Is Just Another Word for Colonialism
Andrew Curley
SECTION II
(Un)Knowing Resource Systems
8. Resistance Against the Land Grab: Defensoras and Embodied Precarity in Latin America
Sharlene Mollett
9. Gender in Extractive Industry: Toward a Feminist Critical Resource Geography of Mining and Hydrocarbons
Ashley Fent
10. The Plantation Town: Race, Resources, and the Making of Place
Danielle M. Purifoy
11. Materializing Space, Constructing Belonging: Toward a Critical-Geographical Understanding of Resource Nationalism
Tom Perreault
12. Resources in a World of Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Dividing, Circumscribing, Confining
Kathryn Furlong, Martine Verdy, and Alejandra Uribe-Albornoz
13. Pets or Meat: A Resource Geography of Dogs in China, from Chairman Mao (1949–1976) to the Pet Fair Asia Fashion Show (2015–2020)
Heidi J. Nast
14. The Social Production of Resources: A Marxist Approach
Matthew T. Huber
15World-Systems Theory, Nature, and Resources
Paul S. Ciccantell
16. The Corporation and Resource Geography
Liam Campling
SECTION III
Doing Critical Resource Geography: Methods, Advocacy, and Teaching
17. Life with Oil Palm: Incorporating Ethnographic Sensibilities in Critical Resource Geography
Eloisa Berman-Arévalo
18. Institutional Ethnography: A Feminist Methodological Approach to Studying Institutions of Resource Governance
Emily Billo
19. Critical Physical Geography: In Pursuit of Integrative and Transformative Approaches to Resource Dynamics
Christine Biermann, Stuart N. Lane, and Rebecca Lave
20. Praxis in Resource Geography: Tensions Between Engagement and Critique in the (Un)Making of Ecosystem Services
Elizabeth Shapiro-Garza, Vijay Kolinjivadi, Gert Van Hecken, Catherine Windey, and Jennifer J. Casolo
21. Negotiating the Mine: Commitments, Engagements, Contradictions
Anthony Bebbington, Ana Estefanía Carballo, Gillian Gregory, and Tim Werner
22. Intergenerational Equity and the Geographical Ebb and Flow of Resources: The Time and Space of Natural Capital Accounting
Patrick Bond and Rahul Basu
23. Research as Action and Performance: Learning with Activists in Resource Conflicts
Christopher Courtheyn and Ahsan Kamal
24. Engaged Research with Smallholders and Palm Oil Firms: Relational and Feminist Insights from the Field
Adrienne Johnson
25. Renewable Energy Landscapes and Community Engagements: The Role of Critical Resource Geographers Beyond Academia
Elvin Delgado
26. Learning about Coal Frontiers: From the Mountains of Appalachia to the Streets of South Baltimore
Nicole Fabricant
27. Teaching Critical Resource Geography: Integrating Research into the Classroom Conor Harrison and Kathryn Snediker
SECTION IV
Resource Making/World Making
28. Soy, Domestication, and Colonialism
Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira
29. From Gold to Rosewood: Agrarian Change, High-Value Resources, and the Flexible Frontier-Makers of the Twenty-First Century
Annah Zhu and Nancy Lee Peluso
30. Conservation and the Production of Wildlife as Resource
Elizabeth Lunstrum and Francis Massé
31. Anadromous Frontiers: Reframing Citizenship in Extractive Regions. The Salmon Industry in Los Lagos, Chile
Beatriz Bustos-Gallardo
32. Extracting Fish
Elspeth Probyn
33. Human Tissue Economies: Making Biological Resources
Maria Fannin
34. Making, and Remaking, a World of Carbon: Uneven Geographies of Carbon Sequestration
Wim Carton and Karin Edstedt
35. World-Making and the Deep Seabed: Mining the Area Beyond National Jurisdiction
Anna Zalik
36. World-Making Through Mapping: Large Scale Marine Protected Areas and the Transformation of the Global Ocean
Lisa M. Campbell, Noella J. Gray, Sarah Bess Jones Zigler, Leslie Acton, and Rebecca Gruby
37. Mapping Resources: Mapping as Method for Critical Resource Geographies
Joe Bryan
Biography
Matthew Himley is an Associate Professor of Geography at Illinois State University. He is a nature-society geographer with interests in the political ecology and political economy of resource industries, especially in the Andean region of South America. His recent research focuses on the historical role of science in mineral extraction and state formation in Peru.
Elizabeth Havice is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She uses the lens of governance to explore distributional outcomes in marine spaces, food systems, and global value chains. She is a cofounder of the Digital Oceans Governance Lab that explores intersections of data technologies and oceans governance.
Gabriela Valdivia is a Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a feminist political ecologist examining the relationship between resources and socio-environmental inequities. Gabriela is an author of the digital project Crude Entanglements, which explores the affective dimensions of oil production, and a coauthor of Oil, Revolution, and Indigenous Citizenship in Ecuadorian Amazonia.
