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Worlds of Gray and Green: Mineral Extraction as Ecological Practice

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By (author): Patricio Flores Sebastián Ureta

The Anthropocene has arrived riding a wave of pollution. From forever chemicals to oceanic garbage patches, human-made chemical compounds are seemingly everywhere. Concerned about how these compounds disrupt multiple lives and ecologies, environmental scholars, activists, and affected communities have sought to curb the causes of pollution, focusing especially on the extractive industries. In Worlds of Gray and Green, authors Sebastián Ureta and Patricio Flores challenge us to rethink extraction as ecological practice. Adopting an environmental humanities analytic lens, Ureta and Flores offer a rich ethnographic exploration of the waste produced by Chile's El Teniente, the world's largest underground mine. Deposited in a massive dam, the wasteknown as tailingsengages with human and non-human entities in multiple ways through a process the authors call geosymbiosis. Some of these geosymbioses result in toxicity and damage, while others become the basis of lively novel ecologies. A particular kind of power emerges in the process, one that is radically indifferent to human beings but that affects them in many ways. Learning to live with geosymbioses offers a tentative path forward amid ongoing environmental devastation. 
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Product Details
  • Weight: 363g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 31 May 2022
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780520386280

About Patricio FloresSebastián Ureta

Sebastián Ureta is Associate Professor at Departmento de Sociología Universidad Alberto Hurtado. He is the author of Assembling Policy: Transantiago Human Devices and the Dream of a World-Class Society. Patricio Flores is a PhD student at the Department of Sociology University of Warwick. His research interests are at the intersection of environmental sociology and technology studies.   

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