Format:
xvi, 145 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:
9780520386280
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0520386280
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9780520386297
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0520386299
Series Statement:
Critical environments : nature, science, and politics 11
Content:
The Anthropocene has arrived riding a wave of pollution. From "forever chemicals" to oceanic garbage patches, human-made chemical compounds are seemingly everywhere. Concerned about how these compounds disrupt multiple lives and ecologies, environmental scholars, activists, and affected communities have sought to curb the causes of pollution, focusing especially on the extractive industries. In Worlds of Gray and Green, authors Sebastián Ureta and Patricio Flores challenge us to rethink extraction as ecological practice. Adopting an environmental humanities analytic lens, Ureta and Flores offer a rich ethnographic exploration of the waste produced by Chile's El Teniente, the world's largest underground mine. Deposited in a massive dam, the waste—known as tailings—engages with human and non-human entities in multiple ways through a process the authors call geosymbiosis. Some of these geosymbioses result in toxicity and damage, while others become the basis of lively novel ecologies. A particular kind of power emerges in the process, one that is radically indifferent to human beings but that affects them in many ways. Learning to live with geosymbioses offers a tentative path forward amid ongoing environmental devastation.
Note:
Introduction -- Residualism -- Carp, algae, dragon -- Happy coexistence -- Parasitism -- Life against life -- Symbiopower
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, EPUB Ureta, Sebastián, 1976- Worlds of gray and green Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022] ISBN 978-0-520-38630-3
Language:
English
Subjects:
Geography
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General works
Keywords:
Chile
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Kupferbergwerk
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Bergbau
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Umweltschaden
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Umweltsoziologie
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