Extraction/Exclusion: Beyond Binaries of Exclusion and Inclusion in Natural Resource Extraction [Hardcover]

Extraction/Exclusion draws and builds on scholarship from across the social sciences to show that natural resource extraction is predicated on exclusions. This innovative workportrays how inclusionary language and practices paradoxically often result in further exclusions, concealing unchanged systems of domination and dispossession and reproducing violent exploitative processes on the ground.

Stephanie Postar is an environmental anthropologist specializing in energy and natural resources in the Global South. She is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Negar Elodie Behzadi is a lecturer in human geography at the University of Bristol. She is a feminist political geographer and political ecologist whose work focuses on how intersectional forms of exclusion and marginalization are produced, reproduced, and contested in stressed environments.

Nina Nikola Doering works as research group leader of the Arctic Governance research group at the Research Institute for Sustainability - Helmholtz Centre Potsdam (RIFS) in Potsdam, Germany. Her current research focuses on knowledge co-creation and research ethics.

Extraction/Exclusion draws upon a deep lineage of research on governing extractive economies but offers something new and exciting. Rather than deploying the standard binaries, the contributors, scholars and activists both, explore the dialectical relations in which exclusion and inclusion operate simultaneously in suturing companies, communities, stakeholders, and governments into complex, dynamic, and unstable extractive assemblages. In making use of a heady mix of feminist and decolonial theory while attentive to questions of Indigeneity, racial capitalism, and scale, this rich collection of case studies drawn from the Global North and South, offers fresh insight into contemporary natural resource extraction. Michael Watts, Class of 63 Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkl#