To the Last Drop - Affective Economies of Extraction and Sentimentality

• Other Authors: Germanaz, Axelle (Editor), Gutiérrez Fuentes, Daniela (Editor), Marak, Sarah (Editor), Paul, Heike (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2023
• Series: Global Sentimentality
• Subjects: Cultural studies; Literary studies: general; Affect; Gender; Capitalism; Environment; Global Sentimentality; Culture; Nature; Literature; Cultural Studies; Literary Studies; Cultural Theory; Sustainability
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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« (Sara Ahmed). 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.