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.

Info autore

Martín Arboleda is based at the School of Sociology of Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile. His research explores the role of primary commodity production—especially mining and agriculture—in the political economy of urbanisation and of global capitalism. His work has been published by international outlets such as Antipode, the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Harvard Design Magazine, Geoforum, and Society and Space, among others.

Riassunto

A clarion call to rethink resource extraction beyond the extractive industries

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Martin Arboleda, Martín Arboleda
• Editore: Verso
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 31.01.2020
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche
• EAN: 9781788732963
• ISBN: 978-1-78873-296-3
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Categorie: Wirtschaftsgeografie, Soziologie, Wirtschaftswachstum, Ideologie, Wirtschaftspolitik, Energietechnik, Kulturanthropologie, Chile, Agrarwirtschaft, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie, Capitalism, Political Ideologies, Politische Ideologien, Mining, 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, Ecology, Economic Geography, Infrastructure, Atacama Desert, economic growth, Logistics, Political Economy, Critical Geography, Extractivism, Mining Industry, Political ideologies and movements, Political Ecology, Extractive industries, Radical Geography, Mines; Mining; Extractivism; Chile; Logistics; Infrastructure; Capitalism; Radical geography; Critical geography; Ecology; Political ecology; Atacama Desert