Indigenous Divergences from the Sacrifice Zones and Rehabilitations of Extractivism When the Hills are Gone: Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community. Thomas Pearson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. 256 pp.The Extractive Zone. Macarena Gómez‐Barris. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. 208 pp.ExtrACTION: Impacts, engagements, and alternative futures. KirkJalbert, AnnaWillow, David Casagrande and Stephanie Paladino, eds. New York: Routledge, 2017. 237 pp.
Rivera Andía JJ (2022)
Publication Type: Other publication type
Publication year: 2022
Journal
Book Volume: 27
Pages Range: 165-170
Issue: 1-2
DOI: 10.1111/jlca.12597
Abstract
This essay reviews three publications dealing with extractivism whose analytical perspectives mostly converge on urban activism and national policies in diverse geographical settings. While Thomas Pearson's When the hills are gone focuses on a single USA state, Macarena Gomez-Barris' The Extractive Zone explores various South American regions, and the chapters of ExtrACTION (by J. Nash, D. Austin, T. McGuire, D. Renfrew, C. Santos, R. Cooley, D. Casagrande, S. Paladino, K. Jalbert, A. Willow, T. Cohen, V. Coptis, A. Fiske, P. Grenter, J. Maldonado, C. McCoy, M. McGrath, R. Nadelman, A. Palmer, T. Partridge, D. Powell, J. Simonelli, A. Wooden.) address not only different countries of the Americas, but also include a few locations in Europe and Asia. If this geographical diversity allows going beyond the usual focus on the Global South when it comes to extractivism, their shared perspective highlights the persisting invisibility of those indigenous voices that diverge from urban activism and the paradigm of resistance. In order to contextualize these two features, I will first show how these publications define some key concepts (extraction, extractivism, and sacrifice zones), and how they describe extractivism's manipulations, catastrophes, and alternatives.
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APA:
Rivera Andía, J.J. (2022). Indigenous Divergences from the Sacrifice Zones and Rehabilitations of Extractivism When the Hills are Gone: Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community. Thomas Pearson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. 256 pp.The Extractive Zone. Macarena Gómez‐Barris. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. 208 pp.ExtrACTION: Impacts, engagements, and alternative futures. KirkJalbert, AnnaWillow, David Casagrande and Stephanie Paladino, eds. New York: Routledge, 2017. 237 pp.
MLA:
Rivera Andía, Juan Javier. Indigenous Divergences from the Sacrifice Zones and Rehabilitations of Extractivism When the Hills are Gone: Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community. Thomas Pearson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. 256 pp.The Extractive Zone. Macarena Gómez‐Barris. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. 208 pp.ExtrACTION: Impacts, engagements, and alternative futures. KirkJalbert, AnnaWillow, David Casagrande and Stephanie Paladino, eds. New York: Routledge, 2017. 237 pp. 2022.
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