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Relational resources: Moving from plural to entangled extractivisms

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Artiga-Purcell, James Alejandro·2024·Political Geography
DOI 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103076
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Increasing studies of extractivisms, in the plural, examine the diverse politics that permeate extractive activities. However useful, this appeal to plurality is problematic. Plurality without relationality risks justifying some extractive activities over others, without addressing how they relate. Drawing on anti-essentialist, decolonial, and political ecological scholarship, this article proposes an ontological reframing of extractivisms that troubles the division and comparison that pervade notions of taxonomic plurality, and emphasizes the mutual constitution articulated within the concept of relationality. Analyses of relational resources are better equipped to illuminate the power-laden associations through which supposedly distinct commodity values, extractive geographies, sectors, and governance regimes shape one another. Beyond complicating rigid definitions of extractive categories, this ontological shift requires distinct methodologies for understanding and contesting entangled extractive interests and logics. It implicates what forms of anti-extractive resistance, solidarities, and alternative futures become viable, thinkable, and necessary.

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  • A narrow focus on a single point of extraction obscures the prior extractive operations required to produce the technology, equipment and energy that enable this extraction.

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Authors
Artiga-Purcell, J. A.
Affiliations
San Jose State University (US)
Corresponding author
Artiga-Purcell, James Alejandro
ORCID
Artiga-Purcell, James Alejandro
Venue
Political Geography
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2024-04
Volume
110
Pages
103076
ISSN
0962-6298 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103076
OpenAlex
W4391874345
Cited by
11
References
101
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 2
FWCI
7.92
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Political Geography (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • San José State University ScholarWorks (San Jose State University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation
  • University of California
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Extractivism and Socioeconomic Issues
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Mining and Resource Management
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › General Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Natural Resources and Economic Development
Keywords
extractivism, relationality, relational resources, anti-essentialism, decoloniality, political ecology, extractive governance, commodity value

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