The Anthropology of Resource Extraction

This book offers an overview of the key debates in the burgeoning anthropological literature on resource extraction.

Lorenzo D'Angelo is Assistant Professor in the Department of History Anthropology Religions Art History, Media and Performing Arts, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Robert Jan Pijpers is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg, Germany.

1. The Anthropology of Resource Extraction: An Introduction 2. Corporations 3. Development 4. Environmental Change 5. Governance 6. Materiality and Substances 7. Mineworkers 8. Positionality and Ethics 9. Sustainability 10. Technology 11. Underground 12. Water and Conflict 13. Final Reflections and Future Agendas