ExtrACTION: impacts, engagements, and alternative futures

Foreword: extractive industries in global economies / June Nash

Preface: a critical mass of engagements

Acknowledgements

Introduction: confronting extraction, taking action / Kirk Jalbert, Anna Willow, David Casagrande, and Stephanie Paladino

Histories & trajectories

The great crew change? : structuring work in the oilfield / Diane E. Austin and Thomas R. McGuire

Mega-mining sovereignty : landscapes of power and protest in Uruguay's new extractivist frontier / Daniel Renfrew and Carlos Santos

Marcellus shale as golden goose : the discourse of development and the marginalization of resistance in northcentral Pennsylvania / Rob Cooley and David Casagrande

Risks & rights

Bounded impacts, boundless promise : environmental impact assessments of oil production in the Ecuadorian Amazon / Amelia Fiske

The power and politics of health impact assessment in the Pacific Northwest coal export debate / Moriah McSharry McGrath

Contingent legal futures : does the ability to exercise aboriginal rights and title turn on the price of gold? / Andie Palmer

Corexit to forget it : transforming coastal Louisiana into an energy sacrifice zone / Julie K. Maldonado

Struggles & opportunities

With or without railway? : post-catastrophe perceptions of risk and development in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec / Geneviève Brisson and Emmanuelle Bouchard-Bastien

Bringing country back? : indigenous aspirations and ecological values in Australian mine-site rehabilitation / Tamar Cohen

Harmonizing grassroots organizing and legal advocacy to address coal mining and shale gas drilling issues in southwestern Pennsylvania / Caitlin McCoy, Veronica Coptis, and Patrick Grenter

Alternative futures

Images of harm, imagining justice : gold mining contestation in Kyrgyzstan / Amanda E. Wooden

El Salvador's challenge to the Latin American extractive imperative / Rachel Hannah Nadelman

Unconventional action and community control : rerouting dependencies despite the hydrocarbon economy / Tristan Partridge

Toward transition? challenging extractivism and the politics of the inevitable on the Navajo nation / Dana E. Powell

Afterword: an open letter to extractivists / Jeanne Simonelli

List of contributors

Index.