To the Last Drop - Affective Economies of Extraction and Sentimentality
Materialtyp:
ArtikelSerie: Utgivningsinformation: Bielefeld transcript Verlag transcript Verlag [Imprint] 2023Beskrivning: 1 electronic resource (300 p.)Innehållstyp: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9783837664102
- 9783839464106
- Biography, Literature and Literary studies
- Literature: history and criticism
- Literary studies: general
- Society and Social Sciences
- Society and culture: general
- Cultural and media studies
- Cultural studies
- Affect
- Capitalism
- Cultural Studies
- Cultural Theory
- Culture
- D Biography
- DS Literature
- DSB Literary studies
- Environment
- Gender
- Global Sentimentality
- J Society and Social Sciences
- JB Society and culture
- JBC Cultural and media studies
- JBCC Cultural studies
- Literary Studies
- Literature
- Literature and Literary studies
- Nature
- Sustainability
- general
- history and criticism
- thema EDItEUR
Open Access Unrestricted online access star
The romance of extraction underlies and partly defines Western modernity and our cultural imaginaries. Combining affect studies and environmental humanities, this volume analyzes societies' devotion to extraction and fossil resources. This devotion is shaped by a nostalgic view on settler colonialism as well as by contemporary »affective economies« (Sara Ahmed). The contributors examine the links between forms of extractivism and gendered discourses of sentimentality and the ways in which cultural narratives and practices deploy the sentimental mode (in plots of attachment, sacrifice, and suffering) to promote or challenge extractivism.
Accessibility options of PDF file not available
Creative Commons Licence cc by cc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
eng
Freely available e-book