To the Last Drop - Affective Economies of Extraction and Sentimentality

• Altri autori: Germanaz, Axelle (Redattore), Gutiérrez Fuentes, Daniela (Redattore), Marak, Sarah (Redattore), Paul, Heike (Redattore)
• Natura: Elettronico Capitolo di libro
• Lingua: inglese
• Pubblicazione: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2023
• Serie: Global Sentimentality 2
• Soggetti: Cultural studies; Literary studies: general; Affect; Gender; Capitalism; Environment; Global Sentimentality; Culture; Nature; Literature; Cultural Studies; Literary Studies; Cultural Theory; Sustainability
• Accesso online: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Riassunto

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.

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (300 p.)

ISBN

9783839464106
9783837664102

Accesso

Open Access