Sebastián Ureta

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Worlds of Gray and Green: Mineral Extraction as Ecological Practice Volume 11Hardcover, 31 May 2022

Worlds of Gray and Green: Mineral Extraction as Ecological Practice Volume 11
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Part of Series
Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics
Print Length
162 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of California Press
Date Published
31 May 2022
ISBN-10
0520386280
ISBN-13
9780520386280

Description

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.

Product Details

Authors:
Sebastián UretaPatricio Flores
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
31 May 2022
Dimensions:
23.01 x 15.19 x 1.8 cm
Genre:
Latin America
ISBN-10:
0520386280
ISBN-13:
9780520386280
Language:
English
Pages:
162
Weight:
340.19 gm

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