Anthropology of Resource Extraction

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.

• 1. The Anthropology of Resource Extraction: An Introduction 2. Corporations 3. Development 4. Environmental Change 5. Governance 6. Materiality and Substances 7. Mineworkers 8. Positionality and Ethics 9. Sustainability 10. Technology 11. Underground 12. Water and Conflict 13. Final Reflections and Future Agendas

"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.