Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North (Studies in the Circumpolar North #5)

By: Arthur Mason

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Synopsis: Through diverse engagements with natural resource extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic, contributors to this volume apprehend Arctic resource regimes through the concept of abstraction. Abstraction refers to the creation of new material substances and cultural values by detaching parts from existing substances and values. The abstractive process differs from the activity of extractive industries by its focus on the conceptual resources that conceal processes of exploitation associated with extraction. The study of abstraction can thus help us attune to the formal operations that make appropriations of value possible while disclosing the politics of extraction and of its representation.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781800734692
Related ISBNs:: 9781800734685
Publisher:: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Date of Addition:: 04/08/22
Copyrighted By:: Arthur Mason
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Earth Sciences
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Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Arthur Mason