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Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism


Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism

Paperback by Arboleda, Martín

Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism

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ISBN:
9781788732963
Publication Date:
14 Jan 2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Verso Books
Pages:
288 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 21 - 22 May 2024
Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism

Description

Planetary Mine rethinks the politics and territoriality of resource extraction, especially as the mining industry becomes reorganized in the form of logistical networks, and East Asian economies emerge as the new pivot of the capitalist world-system. Through an exploration of the ways in which mines in the Atacama Desert of Chile-the driest in the world-have become intermingled with an expanding constellation of megacities, ports, banks, and factories across East Asia, the book rethinks uneven geographical development in the era of supply chain capitalism. Arguing that extraction entails much more than the mere spatiality of mine shafts and pits, Planetary Mine points towards the expanding webs of infrastructure, of labor, of finance, and of struggle, that drive resource-based industries in the twenty-first century.

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