Extraction : Impacts, Engagements, and Alternative Futures

This timely volume examines resistance to natural resource extraction from a critical ethnographic perspective. Using a range of case studies from North, Central and South America, Australia, and Central Asia, the contributors explore how and why resistance movements seek to change extraction policies, evaluating their similarities, differences, successes and failures. A range of ongoing debates concerning environmental justice, risk and disaster, sacrifice zones, and the economic cycles of boom and bust are considered, and the roles of governments, free markets and civil society groups re-examined.

Incorporating contributions from authors in the fields of anthropology, public policy, environmental health, and community-based advocacy, ExtrACTION offers a robustly argued case for change. It will make engaging reading for academics and students in the fields of critical anthropology, public policy, and politics, as well as activists and other interested citizens.

Kirk Jalbert is Manager of Community-Based Research & Engagement at the FracTracker Alliance and Visiting Research Professor in the Drexel University Center for Science, Technology and Society. His work explores public participation in environmental science and policy.

Anna Willow is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Ohio State University. Her research spans indigenous activism and cultural responses to extraction.

David Casagrande is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Lehigh University, USA. His expertise is in cognition, information ecology, and policy analysis of environmental issues.

Stephanie Paladino is with the Center for Applied Social Research, University of Oklahoma. Her research focuses on the interactions among environmental governance, equity, and sustainability.