Antropocene-Alternatives
ALTERNAUTAS : https://journals.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/alternautas/index
Extractivism in the Anthropocene
Late Imperialism and the Expropriation of the Earth https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/vol25-2-bleeding-earth/extractivism-in-the-anthropocene/
From extractivism to global extractivism: the evolution of an organizing concept https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2022.2069015
The Aesthetics of Extractivism: Violence, Ecology, and Sensibility in Turkey’s Kurdistan https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/anti.12723
Ruptures of the Anthropocene: A crisis of justice https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/20438206231155704
Ecocide, the Anthropocene, and the International Criminal Court https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ethics-and-international-affairs/article/ecocide-the-anthropocene-and-the-international-criminal-court/1E3BFF72636338093398729B65B62CE2
Perceiving the Anthropocene as a Public Health Risk via Visual Culture https://cpcl.unibo.it/article/view/15990
There is widespread scientific and cultural evidence that Earth’s planetary boundaries are being exceeded in irreparable ways due to unsustainable behavior in the Global North’s resource-hungry nations in particular, but responsiveness to the climate crisis is still lagging in many parts of the world. It has become clear that significant numbers of people have limited engagement with ecological risks accumulating on a scale much bigger than the micro-level human actions causing them, such as the day-to-day build-up of industrial pollutants including nitrogen dioxide.
How best to go about galvanizing socially just degrowth in the face of barriers to individual commitment that range from a sense of powerlessness to disinterest in futures-thinking?
Antrhopocene : vital challenges-scientific debate. https://en.unesco.org/courier/2018-2/anthropocene-vital-challenges-scientific-debate
The term Anthropocene was coined to take into account the impact of the accelerated accumulation of greenhouse gases on climate and biodiversity, and also the irreversible damage caused by the over-consumption of natural resources. But do we need to turn this into a new geological epoch? While the debate continues among scientists, solutions have yet to be found. We are, in effect, witnessing a collective form of denial – the result of a naive faith in progress, consumerist ideology and powerful economic lobbies.
The term Anthropocene appears in the titles of hundreds of books and scientific articles and in thousands of citations. Its use in the media also continues to grow. Defining Earth’s most recent geological epoch in which human actions have started to provoke biophysical changes on a planetary scale.
Liz-Rejane Issberner and Philippe Léna
Eco-Translation: Translation and Ecology in the Age of the Anthropocene. https://academic.oup.com/isle/article-abstract/24/4/827/4982758?login=false (signing needed to full article)
‘Extractivism’ is a term most often understood in relation to large-scale, profit-driven operations for the removal and processing of natural resources such as hydrocarbons, minerals, lumber, and other materials. In an extended sense, the term refers more generally to a mindset in which resources serve a means-ends function, becoming commodities to be extrapolated and turned to profit. The term has emerged out of a Latin American development studies context to assume a place beside related concepts of the environmental and energy humanities such as the ‘anthropocene’ and ‘petrocultures’.
Calling extractivism ‘an expression of the colonisation of nature’, Facundo Martín argues that ‘[s]o-called natural resources […] are inherently political; far from being given, they are built up by means of political relations and operations, and this is particularly evident during periods of crisis or conflict’. Our notion of extractivism must, then, account for the process by which nature itself becomes politicised, often leading to violent conflict and reterritorializations of space. Such forms of violence have tended to become normalised within the framework of extractivism…
Taking the concept of extractivism, intertwined with the ongoing histories of capitalism, imperialism, and colonialism, as a starting point for cultural analysis enables us to map linkages between western consumption patterns, violence and exploitation occurring at the peripheries of the west, and catastrophic climate change occurring on a planetary scale.
HUMAN RIGHTS AND EXTRACTIVISM IN CHILE : SOCIAL UPRISING, SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL CRISIS, AND PERSPECTIVES https://carleton.ca/lacs/cu-events/human-rights-and-extractivism-in-chile-social-uprising-socio-ecological-crisis-and-perspectives/
Ruptures of the Anthropocene …https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20438206231155704
The poetics of extractivism and the politics of visibility https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0950236X.2021.1886708
The Extractivist Paradigm
Arctic Resources and the Planetary Mine https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/resource-extraction-and-arctic-communities/extractivist-paradigm/725B9C0C6A807657A32F85BBCF944191
Resource extraction modernity came with a particular kind of societies, based on values linked to gender-, ethnic- and social hierarchy and with largely unsustainable practices. As this modernity is challenged, political and cultural tensions have grown around extractive industries that go far beyond those we saw in the past captured in concepts such as preservation and conservation. To make sense of these comprehensive changes the chapter unites two key concepts: the Anthropocene and the Planetary Mine that together shape the new extractivist paradigm.
The Anthropocene speaks to the profound geo-anthropological transformation of the human-earth relationship. The Planetary Mine brings out the interconnected global character of contemporary resource extractivism of which Arctic mining is a significant part.
Latin American extractivism – A review http://Latin American extractivism – A review
Alternatives to Extractivism ?…https://aidwatch.org.au/alternatives-to-green-extractivism/
Luchas, resistencias y alternativas al extractivismo en América Latina y Caribe https://www.opendemocracy.net/es/democraciaabierta-es/luchas-resistencias-y-alternativas-al-extractivismo-en-am%C3%A9rica-latina-y-caribe/
Quienes sufren las consecuencias de la injusticia ambiental de forma más directa suelen gritar sin tanto eco como el recibido por las movilizaciones de las últimas semanas. Y, la violencia y la represión a la que se ven expuestas y expuestos hace urgente una mayor atención y solidaridad transnacional.
There is an unequal exposure to pollution depending on the systemic position of countries, power relations, as well as variables such as race, class or gender. Therefore, it is essential to politicize the debate of sustainability beyond conservationism.
El punto de partida es entender que la degradación del clima no es democrática, no afecta a todas y todos de la misma manera. Existe una desigual exposición a la contaminación en función de la posición sistémica de países, de las relaciones de poder, así como de variables como raza, clase o género.
The starting point is to understand that climate degradation is not democratic and does not affect everyone in the same way. There is an unequal exposure to pollution depending on the systemic position of countries, power relations, as well as variables such as race, class or gender.
Por ello, es esencial politizar el debate de la sostenilidad más allá del conservacionismo, de la modernizacion tecnológica o de la internalización de externalidades ambientales, que ofrecen resupuestas la más de las veces técnicas, sin tener en cuenta las relaciones de poder y los temas distributivos. Es importante entender como se distribuyen desigualmente la producción y el consumo de los bienes y males ambientales.
Therefore, it is essential to politicize the debate of sustainability beyond conservationism, technological modernization or the internalization of environmental externalities, because more often than not, technical answers are offered, without taking into account the power relations and distributive issues. It is important to understand how the production and consumption of environmental goods and evils are unevenly distributed.
Educadores, activistas y víctimas piden una mirada “más social” y “menos económica” para resolver el problema de la grave contaminación en la bahía de Quintero-Puchancaví, conocida como “el Chérnobil chileno”, que esta semana volvió a intoxicar a un centenar de personas, obligó a cerrar los colegios y a cesar la actividad.
Un enésimo “pico de polución” que puso en marcha el protocolo de “alerta sanitaria” en esta bahía del Pacífico en la que desde hace décadas se concentran una veintena de empresas termoeléctricas, petroleras y plantas químicas altamente contaminantes, y que está considerada la “zona cero” de la contaminación industrial en Latinoamérica.
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https://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/mundo/2023/05/26/chernobil-chileno-la-bahia-en-el-pais-andino-que-preocupa-por-su-contaminacion/
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