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Chapter 13 - Extraction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2021

By
Jeffrey Insko
Edited by
Jeffrey Cohen  and
Stephanie Foote
Jeffrey Cohen
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
Stephanie Foote
Affiliation:
West Virginia University
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Summary

This chapter examines the nineteenth-century black radical David Walker’s preoccupation with resource extraction and the history of New World slavery in his 1829 Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World. Walker’s account of the history of colonization and enslavement as a matrix of dehumanization, violence, resource extraction, and capital accumulation highlights the importance of understanding the long history of extraction as more than just an effect and driver of capitalist appropriation, expropriation, and accumulation, and brings into focus the global and racialized dimensions of that history, which disrupt the standard teleology of capitalism’s appropriation of resources.

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extractionextractivismabstractioncolonialityNew World slaveryresistance
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The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities , pp. 170 - 184
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Arboleda, Martín, Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction Under Late Capitalism (London: Verso, 2020).Google Scholar
Estes, Nick, Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (New York: Verso, 2019).Google Scholar
Johnson, Bob, Mineral Rites: An Archaeology of the Fossil Economy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019).Google Scholar
Malm, Andreas, Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming (New York: Verso, 2016).Google Scholar
Wynter, Sylvia, “1492: A New World View,” in Race, Discourse, and the Origin of the Americas: A New World View, Ed. Hyatt, Vera L. and Rex, Nettleford (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995).Google Scholar

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  • Extraction
  • Edited by Jeffrey Cohen, Arizona State University, Stephanie Foote, West Virginia University
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities
  • Online publication: 12 August 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009039369.014
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  • Extraction
  • Edited by Jeffrey Cohen, Arizona State University, Stephanie Foote, West Virginia University
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities
  • Online publication: 12 August 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009039369.014
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  • Extraction
  • Edited by Jeffrey Cohen, Arizona State University, Stephanie Foote, West Virginia University
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities
  • Online publication: 12 August 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009039369.014
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