A clarion call to rethink natural resource extraction beyond the
extractive industries
Planetary Mine
rethinks the politics and territoriality of resource extraction,
especially as the mining industry becomes reorganized in the form of
logistical networks, and East Asian economies emerge as the new pivot
of the capitalist world-system. Through an exploration of the ways in
which mines in the Atacama Desert of Chile--the driest in the
world--have become intermingled with an expanding constellation of
megacities, ports, banks, and factories across East Asia, the book
rethinks uneven geographical development in the era of supply chain
capitalism. Arguing that extraction entails much more than the mere
spatiality of mine shafts and pits, Planetary Mine points
towards the expanding webs of infrastructure, of labor, of finance,
and of struggle, that drive resource-based industries in the
twenty-first century.
