Afterlives of Extraction

Filipe Calvão is an economic and environmental anthropologist. He is an associate professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute. His research examines the politics, ecologies and economies of mineral extraction, with a current focus on the nexus between digitalization, work and extractivism.Matthew Archer studies corporate sustainability, sustainable finance and sustainable development through the lens of political ecology and environmental anthropology. He is currently a lecturer in sustainability in the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York.Asanda Benya is a labour sociologist based at the University of Cape Town. She works at the intersection of gender, class and race. She researches the extractives industries, gendered workplace subjectivities, and labour and feminist movements.

• PrefaceList of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsNotes on Contributors1 Introduction: Global Afterlives of ExtractionFilipe Calvão, Asanda Benya and Matthew ArcherPart 1Post-extractivism: Debates and Practices2 Expanding Extractivisms: Extractivisms as Modes of Extraction Sustaining Imperial Modes of LivingErik Post3 The Structures of Conquest: Debating Extractivism(s), Infrastructures and Environmental Justice for Advancing Post-development PathwaysAlexander Dunlap4 Logics of Extraction and of the Valorisation of Culture: the Role of Post-extraction Investment in the Creation of Inequality in ChinaRyan Parsons5 Regulating Mine Rehabilitation and Closure on Indigenous Held Lands: Insights from the Regulated Resource States of Australia and CanadaEmille Boulot and Ben CollinsPart 2Resilience, Contestation and Resistance6 Aluminium in Suriname (1898–2020): an Industry Came and Went, But Its Impacts on the Maroon Communities RemainSimon Lobach7 Contesting Extraction: Challenges for Coalition Building between Agrarian and Anti-mining MovementsLouisa Prause8 ‘We Are Nature Defending Itself’: the Forest of Dannenrod Occupation as an Example of Contested Extractivism in the Global NorthDorothea Hamilton and Sina Trölenberg9 National Resources, Resistance, and the Afterlives of the New International Economic Order in BangladeshPaul Robert GilbertPart 3‘Green’ Extractivism and Its Discontents10 The ‘Alterlives’ of Green Extractivism: Lithium Mining and Exhausted Ecologies in the Atacama DesertJames J. A. Blair, Ramón M. Balcázar, Javiera Barandiarán and Amanda Maxwell11 Green Masquerade: Neo-liberalism, Extractive Renewable Energy Transitions, and the ‘Good’ Anthropocene in South AfricaMichelle Pressend12 Electric Vehicle Paradise? Exploring the Value Chains of Green ExtractivismDevyn Remme, Siddharth Sareen, Håvard Haarstad and Kjetil RommetveitIndex