To the Last Drop - Affective Economies of Extraction and Sentimentality

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ID19002199
AuthorsDaniela Fuentes, Daniela del Valle y Fuentes (Austral University of Chile), Transcript GbR
EditorsAxelle Germanaz (corresponding author), Daniela Gutiérrez Fuentes, Sarah Marak, Heike Paul (0000-0002-6592-5157)
Year2023
Publication date2023-07-12
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueTo the Last Drop - Affective Economies of Extraction and Sentimentality (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherTranscript Verlag (PUBLISHER • DE)
OpenAlexW4384828796
Open LibraryOL48170458M
ISBN9783839464106
LanguageEN
References cited135

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«. 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

Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics) · Art · Chromatography · Colonialism · Ecocriticism · Literature · Modernity · Narrative · Political science · Romance · Sentimentality · Sociology · Telecommunications · Chemistry · Computer Science · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · German Colonialism and Identity Studies · Law · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Popular culture

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