The Violent Technologies of Extraction: Political Ecology, Critical Agrarian Studies and the Capitalist Worldeater

by Alexander Dunlap and Jostein Jakobsen

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030268519
• ISBN13: 9783030268510
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"