Planetary Mine - Territories of Extraction Under Late Capitalism

Planetary Mine rethinks the politics and territoriality of resource extraction, especially as the mining industry becomes reorganized in the form of logistical networks, and East Asian economies emerge as the new pivot of the capitalist world-system. Through an exploration of the ways in which mines in the Atacama Desert of Chile—the driest in the world—have become intermingled with an expanding constellation of megacities, ports, banks, and factories across East Asia, the book rethinks uneven geographical development in the era of supply chain capitalism. Arguing that extraction entails much more than the mere spatiality of mine shafts and pits, Planetary Mine points towards the expanding webs of infrastructure, of labor, of finance, and of struggle, that drive resource-based industries in the twenty-first century.

About the author

Martín Arboleda is Associate Professor of Sociology at Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile. He obtained his PhD in Politics from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. His research explores the political economy of globalized extraction, as well as the political and intellectual history of Latin American theories of development and underdevelopment. His fields of interest include global political economy, critical social theory, and development studies. He is the author of the book Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism (Verso Books, 2020), as well as of Gobernar la utopía: sobre la planificación y el poder popular (Caja Negra Editora, 2021). His research has been published in several scholarly journals as well as in non-academic outlets.

Summary

A clarion call to rethink resource extraction beyond the extractive industries

Product details

• Authors: Martin Arboleda, Martín Arboleda
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781788732963
• ISBN: 978-1-78873-296-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Wirtschaftsgeografie, Soziologie, Wirtschaftswachstum, Ideologie, Wirtschaftspolitik, Energietechnik, Kulturanthropologie, Agrarwirtschaft, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie, Political Ideologies, Politische Ideologien, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Wirtschaftsgeographie, Agrarwirtschaft und primärer Sektor, Anthropologie / Kulturanthropologie, Geografie / Wirtschaftsgeografie, Wachstum (wirtschaftlich) - Wachstumstheorie, Technologien für fossile Brennstoffe, allgemein, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Economic Geography, economic growth, Political Economy, Mining Industry, Political ideologies and movements, Extractive industries