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Material Worlds: Natural Resources, Resource Geography and the Material Economy
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This article lays out a set of arguments about natural resources, the material economy, and resource geography. It explains the productive position resources occupy in the organization of knowledge and establishes ‘natural resources’ as a potent social category for designating parts of the non‐human world to which value is attached. The article then elaborates two claims: (1) that we live in a material world in which ‘the economy’ is fundamentally – although not exclusively – a process of material transformation through which natural resources are converted into a vast array of commodities and by‐product wastes; and (2) that the material economy of resource production, transformation and consumption is one of contradiction and paradox. The bulk of the article outlines seven specific resource paradoxes: scale/quality, complexity/risk, scarcity/abundance, value/intensity, diversity/dependence, wealth/poverty, intimacy/ignorance – and explains what they reveal about the geographical and historical dynamics of resource production and consumption.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bridge, G.
- Venue
- Geography Compass
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2009-05
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1217-1244
- ISSN
- 1749-8198 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2078837941
- Cited by
- 342
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 11.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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