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Worlds of Gray and Green

Mineral Extraction as Ecological Practice

May 31, 2022 | Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780520386297
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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. 
 

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About this Author

Sebastián Ureta is Associate Professor at Departmento de Sociología, Universidad Alberto Hurtado. He is the author of Assembling Policy: Transantiago, Human Devices, and the Dream of a World-Class Society

Patricio Flores is a PhD student at the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick. His research interests are at the intersection of environmental sociology and technology studies. 
 

ISBN: 9780520386297
Format: Trade Paperback
Series: Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics
Pages: 162
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2022-05-31

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