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Worlds of Gray and Green
Sebastián Ureta
Patricio Flores
其他書名
Mineral Extraction as Ecological Practice
出版
Univ of California Press
, 2022-05-17
主題
Science / Environmental Science
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies
Social Science / Human Geography
Technology & Engineering / Environmental / General
Technology & Engineering / Environmental / Pollution Control
ISBN
0520386280
9780520386280
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=gtdgEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.