Situating extraction in capitalism: Blueprints, frontier projects, and life-making

Capitalism; Frontier; Governance; Mining; Subjectivity; Geography, Planning and Development; Development; Economic Geology; Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Abstract :

[en] “Mining (in) Capitalism” considers struggles over large-scale mining projects amid the multi-scalar politics of capitalism, bringing together articles analysing the articulation of national sovereignty over resources, protests over land, jobs and development projects, and individual and collective projects of life-making. This introductory article provides conceptual context, situating the collection within a discussion of what Nancy Fraser (2014) terms an “expanded conception” of capitalism, one that pays attention to multiple hidden abodes of “non-economic” processes and recognizes long-lasting legacies of variegated histories of extraction. The article begins by reviewing shifts in transnationally promoted blueprints for governing mineral extraction. It traces how, while mining projects power capitalism, they undermine its conditions of possibility, provoking struggles and requiring work to maintain extraction. Secondly, it calls for a contextualization of extractivist geographies of frontiers and enclaves that pays attention to older and intersecting projects of confiscation, domination, exploitation and neglect. Thirdly, it argues that such contextualization opens avenues for understanding diverse life projects and lived contradictions in the shadow of extraction. Contextualizing extraction within an expanded conception of capitalism helps illuminate the planetary politics that drive extraction while emphasizing place-specific trajectories of corporate power, distributive projects, protest and accommodation.

Disciplines :

Sociology & social sciences
Anthropology

Author, co-author :

Lochery, Emma ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences sociales > Labo d'anthropologie sociale et culturelle (LASC)

Language :

English

Title :

Situating extraction in capitalism: Blueprints, frontier projects, and life-making

Publication date :

September 2022

Journal title :

Extractive Industries and Society

ISSN :

2214-790X

eISSN :

2214-7918

Publisher :

Elsevier Ltd

Special issue title :

Mining (in) Capitalism

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Pages :

101137

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https://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S2214790X22001010?httpAccept=text/xml

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ERC - European Research Council [BE]
EU - European Union [BE]

Funding number :

646802

Funding text :

This article was written as part of the WORKinMINING project (https://www.workinmining.ulg.ac.be). The project received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 646802). The ideas developed in this article reflect only the author's view. The ERC is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

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