Territories of Extraction

Mapping Palimpsests of Appropriation

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ID22018595
AutoresBerta Morata (0000-0003-3617-2309, Luleå University of Technology), Chiara Cavalieri (0000-0002-7023-6516, Architects Council of Europe), Agatino Rizzo (0000-0001-6831-8857, Luleå University of Technology), Andrea Luciani (0000-0002-7372-358X, Luleå University of Technology)
Ano2020
Volume5
Fascículo2
Páginas132-151
Data de publicação2020-06-30
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoUrban Planning (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2183-7635 • E-ISSN: 2183-7635
EditoraCogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT)
DOI10.17645/up.v5i2.2901
OpenAlexW3039100857
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas17

This article—framed as a methodological contribution and at the intersection between the critical urban, urban political ecology and world-ecology disciplines—builds on Corboz’s metaphor of ‘territory as a palimpsest’ to explore the representation of the socio-economic and ecological processes underpinning uneven development under extractive capitalist urbanization. While the palimpsest approach has typically been used to map transformations of more traditional urban morphologies, this work focuses instead on remote extraction territories appropriated by the global economy and integral to planetary urbanization. The article suggests the central notion of ‘palimpsests of appropriation’ as a lens to map the extraction processes. It does so in its multi-scalar and temporal dimensions and on the basis of the three intertwined frames—i.e., the productive, distribution and mediation palimpsest—shortly exemplifying its use on the ground for the iron ore extraction territory in the Swedish-Norwegian Arctic. With this, the article contributes to the development of an expanded representational methodology and conception of territories of extraction—where social and natural production are brought together—illustrating how appropriation has been (re)shaping each of the frames throughout historical thresholds, but also how socio-natures are being (re)made in its image

Appropriation · Archaeology · Economic geography · Epistemology · Geography · Linguistics · Metaphor · Palimpsest · Sociology · Urbanization · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Mining and Resource Management · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Ecology