The 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.

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Notes on Contributors


1 Introduction: Global Afterlives of Extraction

  Filipe Calvão, Asanda Benya and Matthew Archer



Part 1

Post-extractivism: Debates and Practices

2 Expanding Extractivisms: Extractivisms as Modes of Extraction Sustaining Imperial Modes of Living

  Erik Post



3 The Structures of Conquest: Debating Extractivism(s), Infrastructures and Environmental Justice for Advancing Post-development Pathways

  Alexander Dunlap



4 Logics of Extraction and of the Valorisation of Culture: the Role of Post-extraction Investment in the Creation of Inequality in China

  Ryan Parsons



5 Regulating Mine Rehabilitation and Closure on Indigenous Held Lands: Insights from the Regulated Resource States of Australia and Canada

  Emille Boulot and Ben Collins



Part 2

Resilience, Contestation and Resistance

6 Aluminium in Suriname (1898–2020): an Industry Came and Went, But Its Impacts on the Maroon Communities Remain

  Simon Lobach



7 Contesting Extraction: Challenges for Coalition Building between Agrarian and Anti-mining Movements

  Louisa Prause



8 ‘We Are Nature Defending Itself’: the Forest of Dannenrod Occupation as an Example of Contested Extractivism in the Global North

  Dorothea Hamilton and Sina Trölenberg



9 National Resources, Resistance, and the Afterlives of the New International Economic Order in Bangladesh

  Paul Robert Gilbert



Part 3

‘Green’ Extractivism and Its Discontents

10 The ‘Alterlives’ of Green Extractivism: Lithium Mining and Exhausted Ecologies in the Atacama Desert

  James J. A. Blair, Ramón M. Balcázar, Javiera Barandiarán and Amanda Maxwell



11 Green Masquerade: Neo-liberalism, Extractive Renewable Energy Transitions, and the ‘Good’ Anthropocene in South Africa

  Michelle Pressend



12 Electric Vehicle Paradise? Exploring the Value Chains of Green Extractivism

  Devyn Remme, Siddharth Sareen, Håvard Haarstad and Kjetil Rommetveit



Index