Value, Identity and Place: unearthing the emotional geographies of the extractive sector

Politicizing the Body in the Anti-Mining Protest in Greece

“…Feminist geographers theorize the relational nature of space and construction of the identity of place (Massey, 2004) as an embodied and emplaced identity constituted both discursively and materially, but this is rarely used to research embodied resistance. 1 Emotional geographies also see affect as important for understanding people's values, identities and relationships with place, for instance in this study's context of extractive mining (Ey, 2018;Ey, Sherval, & Hodge, 2017).…”

“…Our primary contribution is to the literature on embodiment and how women's 'othered' body plays out in and through public space, for example in feminized work (Pullen & Simpson, 2009) and academia (Tyler & Cohen, 2010), showing how women use it to reclaim public space in the context of gendered resistance. Our second, related contribution is to offer a feminist analysis to the literature on organizing alternative social movements (De Bakker, Den Hond, King, & Weber, 2013;Parker, Cheney, Fournier, & Land, 2014;Reedy et al, 2016;Reedy & Learmonth, 2009) through embodied affectivity as a way of accounting for emotional dimensions of resistance, to extractivism specifically (Ey, 2018;Ey et al, 2017) and social movements more generally. We thus extend Vachhani and Pullen's (2019) work on feminist solidarity in contemporary social movements combating inequality, sexual harassment and violence against women in the workplace and beyond.…”

“…Historically, women have played an important but relatively unrecognized role in opposing large-scale mining developments in rural Andean communities (Jenkins, 2014;Jenkins & Rondón, 2015), Asia and the Pacific (Horowitz, 2017;Nabulivou, 2006) and Australia (Ey, 2018;Ey et al, 2017), and in challenging the expansion of extractive industries (Jenkins, 2015). Although some studies have demonstrated women's direct involvement in mining activities (Hinton, Veiga, & Beinhoff, 2003;Jenkins, 2014), women-based groups are often at the forefront of anti-extractivist struggles (for example, the Mothers of Ituzaingó; see Leguizamón, 2019), having to combat sexism and marginalization within anti-mining movements and facing threats from within and outside their communities (Velasquez, 2012, cited in Jenkins, 2014.…”

The local politics of rural land use: Place, extraction industries and narratives of contemporary rurality

“…It is in this context that extractive industries such as mining and CSG have emerged as points of social and political debate in rural places both in Australia and internationally (Duus, 2013;Ey et al, 2017). The arrival of the extractive industries intervenes in an already changing and contested social and economic landscape in rural Australia and connects rural economies to fluctuations in global mineral and gas prices, as well as the established vulnerability to the price of agricultural goods.…”

“…The arrival of the extractive industries intervenes in an already changing and contested social and economic landscape in rural Australia and connects rural economies to fluctuations in global mineral and gas prices, as well as the established vulnerability to the price of agricultural goods. In general, public debates about the extractive industries have taken place through what Ey et al (2017) have described as a disembodied and instrumental understanding of the extractive industries and their relationship to economies and local places. In Australian public debate, the operation of extractive industries has become politically aligned with the economic future of localities and the nation as a whole, and activities such as mining and CSG exploration are discussed as an unproblematic economic good (Mercer et al, 2014).…”