‘Extractive bodies’: A feminist counter-topography of two extractive landscapes

Postar, Stephanie; Behzadi, Negar Elodie

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.09.005

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“…Recent geographical research has brought forth compelling examples of scholarship that transcends geographical boundaries and contextual variations while challenging Western-based understandings of childhood. Postar and Behzadi (2022), for instance, explore children’s work in extractive industries in Tajikistan and Tanzania, locations profoundly influenced by neocolonial and neoliberal forces, albeit in different ways. Despite parallels in their empirical findings regarding children’s struggles and exploitation, the conceptual frameworks surroundings these findings follow quite disparate narratives of colonial, communist, and capitalist histories of resource exploitation, ultimately connected through the channels of contemporary global capitalism.…”

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Children’s geographies I: Decoloniality

Blazek

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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This review departs from the perception that children’s geographies are theoretically ‘stuck’, by showing how the field’s growing decolonial scholarship pushes its boundaries. Decoloniality involves delinking from Western constructs and developing pluralistic theoretical frameworks firmly grounded in the realities of marginalised childhoods. Organised around the themes of decolonial theory, praxis, and conceptualisations of childhood, the review focuses on embracing historical geographies of non-Western childhoods, developing relational and place-based methodologies, centring on childhoods on the margins of global knowledge production, addressing the interlinked marginalisation of children through colonial violence and adult dominance, and challenging the Anglo-centric modes of academic publishing.

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Children’s geographies I: Decoloniality

Blazek

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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Unearthing extractive subjects: Power and subjectivity at the extractive frontier

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Frederiksen

2024

Geoforum

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Embodying industrial transitions: Melancholy loss, interrupted habit and transitional memory after the end of a coal mine

Zhang

2024

Trans Inst British Geog

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Geographical and interdisciplinary literatures often focus on the enduring losses engendered by industrial closure and economic change, describing the moment of deindustrialisation as a cut in the fabric of history. In this imaginary, people and place become suspended in the past, through ‘melancholy’ logics of attachment, ruination and loss. The aim of this article is to reorient these melancholy temporalities by demonstrating memory's central, though perhaps paradoxical, role in transitioning bodies through the afterlife of economic closure. Alongside three stories from an empirical study of life after two coal mine closures in Australia and China, I look to theories of melancholy and habit—understood as embodied, preconscious forms of non‐representational memory—to explore workers' capacities to reorient and rebuild subjectivity in the wake of closure's interruptions and disorientations. I emphasise the work of memory in knitting together life after ‘the end’, through transitional processes of reckoning, acting and learning that engender changing bodily intensities and evaluations, and the possibility of a renewed sense of life as ordinary. Taken together, this article makes paired contributions to literatures on economic change and geographies of memory. By looking beyond linear narratives of rupture and decline, it recognises the afterlife of industrial closure as an intimate site of transition without losing sight of the past. By showing how even melancholy memories are imbricated in the production of altered presents and futures, it emphasises memory's parallax operation as an embodied force of differentiation.

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‘Extractive bodies’: A feminist counter-topography of two extractive landscapes

Cited by 3 publications

References 58 publications

Children’s geographies I: Decoloniality

Children’s geographies I: Decoloniality

Unearthing extractive subjects: Power and subjectivity at the extractive frontier

Embodying industrial transitions: Melancholy loss, interrupted habit and transitional memory after the end of a coal mine

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