Extraction/Exclusion

Stephanie Postar is an environmental anthropologist specializing in energy and natural resources in the Global South. She is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.Negar Elodie Behzadi is a lecturer in human geography at the University of Bristol. She is a feminist political geographer and political ecologist whose work focuses on how intersectional forms of exclusion and marginalization are produced, reproduced, and contested in stressed environments.Nina Nikola Doering works as research group leader of the Arctic Governance research group at the Research Institute for Sustainability - Helmholtz Centre Potsdam (RIFS) in Potsdam, Germany. Her current research focuses on knowledge co-creation and research ethics.

Extraction/Exclusion draws upon a deep lineage of research on governing extractive economies but offers something new and exciting. Rather than deploying the standard binaries, the contributors, scholars and activists both, explore the dialectical relations in which exclusion and inclusion operate simultaneously in suturing companies, communities, stakeholders, and governments into complex, dynamic, and unstable extractive assemblages. In making use of a heady mix of feminist and decolonial theory while attentive to questions of Indigeneity, racial capitalism, and scale, this rich collection of case studies drawn from the Global North and South, offers fresh insight into contemporary natural resource extraction.

• Introduction: Challenging Inclusion as a Solution to Exclusion in Natural Resource Extraction (by Negar Elodie Behzadi, Stephanie Postar, and Nina Nikola Doering)Part I: Haves/Have Nots: Unsettling the Political Ecologies of Extraction (by Philippe Le Billon, Stephanie Postar, and Negar Elodie Behzadi)Chapter 1: Managing Gold Extraction Through Technocratic Discourse in Post-Socialist Kyrgyzstan (by Asel Doolotkeldieva)Chapter 2: A Political Ecology of Environmental Law Enforcement: Civil Complaints and Environmental Justice in Post-Neoliberal Ecuador (by Teresa Bornschlegl)Part II: Oppressors/Oppressed: Gender, Race, and the Extractive Body (by Rebecca Elmhirst) Chapter 3: A Decolonial Feminist Dialogue-As-Critique: Against the Sexual and Racialised Violence at the Heart of Extractivism (by Amber Murrey and Sharlene Mollett) Chapter 4: Young Female Miners in Tajikistani Coal Mines: Intersectional Extractive Violence and Ecologies of Exhaustion (by Negar Elodie Behzadi)Part III: Human/Non-Human: The More Than Human (by Emilie Cameron)Chapter 5: Extractive Industries, Impact Assessments, and Exclusion in Northwest Greenland (by Mark Nuttall)Chapter 6: Intimate Encounters with Uranium at an Anticipated Uranium Mine in Tanzania (by Stephanie Postar)Part IV: Static Materials/Dynamic Materials: Resource Materialities, Temporalities, and Affect (by Gisa Weszkalnys)Chapter 7: Contested Futures in British Columbia’s Hydro-Extractive Corridor: Progress, Pragmatism, and Visionary Activism (by Anna J. Willow) Chapter 8: Zinc’s Time in the Sun? Tracing the Reopening of the Riso and Parina Valleys’ Mines from Precarious Optimisms to Affective Indeterminacy (by Robin West and Isabel Crowhurst)Part V: Large-Scale/Small-Scale: Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt)Chapter 9: Artisanal and Large-Scale Mine Relations: Laying the Groundwork for Autonomous Coexistence in Sub-Saharan Africa (by Gavin Hilson, John Owen, Titus Sauerwein, Massaran Traore, and Éléonore Lèbre)Chapter 10: Negotiating Inclusion and Exclusion in Artisanal Oil Extraction: The Case of Two Villages in East Java, Indonesia (by Nanang Kuniawan, Päivi Lujala, and Ståle Angen Rye)Part VI: Inclusion/Exclusion: Precarious Resource Inclusions (by Penda Diallo)Chapter 11: Contractual Violence: Impact-Benefit Agreements and the Violent Exclusions Hidden by “Consent” (by Leah S. Horowitz)Chapter 12: In the Ebbs and Flows of Resource Extraction, Who Is a Stakeholder? Insights from West Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) (by Nina Nikola Doering)Conclusion: Extractive Orientations (by Gavin Bridge)About the Authors