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.
| ISBN: | 9781800734685 |
| Publication date: | 8th April 2022 |
| Author: | Arthur Mason |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 192 pages |
| Series: | Studies in the Circumpolar North |
| Genres: |
Extractive industries Social and cultural anthropology |
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.
Arctic Abstractive Industry features in the following genres: Extractive industries, Social and cultural anthropology
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Arctic Abstractive Industry was written by Arthur Mason and published by Berghahn Books
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