To the Last Drop: Affective Economies of Extraction and Sentimentality - Couverture souple

 
9783837664102: To the Last Drop: Affective Economies of Extraction and Sentimentality
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ISBN 10 : 3837664104 ISBN 13 : 9783837664102
Editeur : Transcript Verlag, 2023

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Axelle Germanaz (M.A.) is a doctoral researcher in American studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Her research interests include environmental humanities, far-right extremism, affect studies and sentimentalism, and critical race theory. Daniela Gutiérrez Fuentes (M.A.) is a Chilean political scientist and journalist whose research interests include environmental humanities, decolonial theory/praxis, social justice, and post-development critique. She is a doctoral researcher at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany and Universidad Austral de Chile. Sarah Marak (M.A.) is a doctoral researcher in American studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Her research interests include popular culture, discourses on terrorism, U.S.-American myths and ecocriticism. Heike Paul (Prof. Dr.) is chair of American studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and director of the Bavarian American Academy in Munich. She is project leader of the Global Sentimentality Project and spokesperson of the research training group on »The Sentimental« at FAU. In 2018, she received the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation.

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Éditeur
Transcript Verlag
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3837664104
ISBN 13 
9783837664102
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
300
Éditeur
Germanaz Axelle, Fuentes Daniela Gutierrez, Marak Sarah, Paul Heike
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible