1st Edition

Understanding ExtrACTIVISM Culture and Power in Natural Resource Disputes

By Anna J. Willow Copyright 2019
312 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

312 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

312 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Understanding ExtrACTIVISM surveys how contemporary resource extractive industry works and considers the responses it inspires in local citizens and activists. Chapters cover a range of extractive industries operating around the world, including logging, hydroelectric dams, mining, and oil and natural gas extraction. Taking an activist anthropological stance, Anna Willow examines how culture... Read more

Foreword by David W. Orr

1. Introduction

2. Legacies

3. Forests

4. Water 

5. Mining 

6. Coal 

7. Oil and Gas

8. You Decide

Questions to Consider, Actions to Take

Biography

Anna J. Willow is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Ohio State University, USA. She studies how individuals and communities experience and respond to externally imposed resource extractive development.