The Aesthetics of Extractivism
Violence, Ecology, and Sensibility in Turkey’s Kurdistan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8098032 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eray Çaylı (0000-0001-8113-0349, European Institute London School of Economics and Political Science London UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1377-1399 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antipode (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0066-4812 • E-ISSN: 1467-8330 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/anti.12723 |
| OpenAlex | W3137609220 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 71 |
Focusing on dams and sand quarries, I discuss extractivism’s racialised workings along the uppermost stretch of the Tigris river in Turkey’s Kurdistan. In conversation with decolonial scholarship on “the Anthropocene”, I theorise through aesthetics the symbolic, epistemic, and corporeal violence of reducing the value of human and nonhuman life and agency to that of an extractable resource. My contribution to this scholarship involves a twofold argument. First, extractivism is upheld not only by the negation (or rendering insensible) of humans and nonhumans, but also the affirmation (or rendering excessively sensible) thereof, insofar as the latter shares the former’s racialised logic of valuing life and agency quantifiably. Second, the affirmations are not always straightforwardly territorialisable as they are often geographically entangled with the negations, particularly in times of crises that throw extractivist excesses into sharp relief. I conclude by thinking with activism to flesh out the counter‐extractivist implications of my argument
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Anthropocene · Argument (complex analysis · Biology · Conversation · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Negation · Political science · Scholarship · Sensibility · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Communication · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Water Governance and Infrastructure
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| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |