Spatial Woundings

Entanglements of Minings, Metals, and Extraction

By (author) Erin C. Adams By (author) Bretton A. Varga

Extent: 260 pages

Publisher: University of Exeter Press

Subjects: Earth & Life Sciences , Social Sciences

Series: Exeter Studies in Environmental Humanities

Language: English

Hardback (Forthcoming)

(November 2026)

ISBN: 9781804132432

6.14 x 9.21 inches

Price: $126.00

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(November 2026)

ISBN: 9781804132456

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Synopsis
Contributing Authors

Minerals and metals underpin our everyday existence, yet the extraction process-ripping them from the earth-fuels toxic geopolitical relationships, colonization, and conflict. This book confronts this devastation, focusing on spatial wounding-the violence inflicted on landscapes, people, and atmospheres by extractionary logics.

Minerals and metals underpin our everyday existence, woven into the creation of nearly all consumer products. Yet the extraction process of ripping them from the earth fuels often toxic global geopolitical relationships, colonization, and conflict. Despite their fundamental importance, these materials are too often unseen, unappreciated, and unnoticed. This lack of awareness occludes critical opportunities for researchers, educators, and students to engage with the complex relationships between people, products, and the environment. Spatial Woundings: Entanglements of Minings, Metals, and Extractions explores how extractivist logics continue to cultivate devastation, plunder, and ecological precarity, focusing on the concept of spatial wounding-the myriad ways landscapes and living systems are subjected to the violence of extraction. This damage is comprehensive, encompassing alterations to the physical landscape as well as injury inflicted upon people, animals, plants, and atmospheres. Featuring a collection of international scholars, this urgent book surveys the contours of these devastating outcomes alongside crucial efforts to resist the logics that perpetuate them, ultimately reimagining the role of metals and extraction in cultural, popular, and social contexts. The volume is structured in three sections: Part I details historical experiences and intimate stories of spatial wounding; Part II offers analytical engagements with mining as a metaphor in media and technology; and Part III considers the broader empires, extraction, and more-than-human damage, addressing colonial legacies and anticolonial ethics in resource governance.

By (author) Erin C. Adams
By (author) Bretton A. Varga

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