The Violent Technologies of Extraction von Alexander Dunlap | Political ecology, critical agrarian studies and the capitalist worldeater | ISBN 9783030268510

The Violent Technologies of Extraction

Political ecology, critical agrarian studies and the capitalist worldeater

von Alexander Dunlap und Jostein Jakobsen
Mitwirkende
Autor / AutorinAlexander Dunlap
Autor / AutorinJostein Jakobsen
Buchcover The Violent Technologies of Extraction | Alexander Dunlap | EAN 9783030268510 | ISBN 3-030-26851-9 | ISBN 978-3-030-26851-0
“Those readers interested in creative new approaches to the most pressing dilemmas facing human and non-human nature, this book will be a source of insight and inspiration.” (W. Nathan Green, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, December 2, 2020)

The Violent Technologies of Extraction

Political ecology, critical agrarian studies and the capitalist worldeater

von Alexander Dunlap und Jostein Jakobsen
Mitwirkende
Autor / AutorinAlexander Dunlap
Autor / AutorinJostein Jakobsen

Offering a thought provoking theoretical conversation around ecological crisis and natural resource extraction, this book suggests that we are on a trajectory geared towards total extractivism guided by the mythological Worldeater. The authors discuss why and how we have come to live in this catastrophic predicament, rooting the present in an original perspective that animates the forces of global techno-capitalist development. They argue that the Worldeater helps us make sense of the insatiable forces that transform, convert and consume the world. The book combines this unique approach with detailed academic review of critical agrarian studies and political ecology, the militarization of nature and the conventional and ‘green’ extraction nexus. It seeks radical reflection on the role people play in the construction and perpetuation of these crises, and concludes with some suggestions on how to tackle them.