Land of Extraction : Property, Fracking, and Settler Colonialism

Drawing on contemporary events, fictional accounts of fossil fuel apocalypse, and ethnographic work on the fracking and pipeline boom in West Virginia, this book explores how private property, a primary political economic and emotional structure of settler colonial capitalism, enables extractive industry, constrains individual agency, and impedes environmental justice--

• | Author: Rebecca R. Scott
• | Publisher: NYU Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 12, 2024
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1479821268
• | ISBN-13: 9781479821266