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The Violent Technologies of Extraction Political ecology, critical agrarian studies and the capitalist worldeater

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The Violent Technologies of Extraction Political ecology, critical agrarian studies and the capitalist worldeater

Author(s)

Alexander Dunlap, Jostein Jakobsen

Edition
ISBN

9783030268527, 9783030268510

Publisher

Palgrave Pivot

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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.