Essays about: "sacrifice zones"

Found 3 essays containing the words sacrifice zones.

  1. 1. Seeing Lithium Extraction : Countering the Myth of ‘Green’ Transition through Contemporary Art

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Victoria McCarthy; [2023]
    Keywords : Lithium extraction; contemporary art; extractivism; ‘green’ transition; myth; green sacrifice zones; visibility; countervisuality; Unknown Fields; Marcela Magno; Julian Charrière; Extracción de litio; arte contemporaneo; extractivismo; trancisión verde ; zonas de sacrificio verdes; visibilización; contra-visualidad;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the intersection between lithium extraction and contemporary art through a visual semiotic analysis of three contemporary artworks: Unknown Fields’ We Power Our Future With the Breast Milk of Volcanoes, Marcela Magno’s Land [2] Litio, and Julian Charrière’s Future Fossil Spaces. It explores how lithium extraction is visualised in the selected artworks, what connotations can be extracted from them, the geopolitical dimension expressed in them, and how they relate to the myth of ‘green’ transition. READ MORE

  3. 2. Mining for the low-carbon transition : Conflicting discourses of sacrifice zones and win-win narratives

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Isabella Andersson; [2021]
    Keywords : Climate-smart mining; low-carbon transition; discourse analysis; discourse coalitions; storylines; sacrifice zones; World Bank;

    Abstract : To support the transition towards a low-carbon economy, mining companies, international financial institutions and governments are preparing to drastically scale up mineral extraction of energy transition minerals such as cobalt and lithium. Mineral extraction, however, has far-reaching impacts on the biophysical environment and mining-affected communities that may become more severe under a changing climate. READ MORE

  4. 3. Rejecting Fate : The challenge of a subaltern community to the creation of a sacrifice zone in Can Sant Joan, Catalonia

    University essay from KTH/Historiska studier av teknik, vetenskap och miljö

    Author : Sergio Ruiz Cayuela; [2018]
    Keywords : political ecology; environmental justice; environmental humanities; subaltern environmentalism; slow violence; sacrifice zones; environmental humanities;

    Abstract : It was my first visit ever to the neighborhood association – in February 2017 – and the phone rang again in the contiguous room. “I’m sorry” apologized José Luis “but our colleagues are not here yet and I need to answer the phone”. READ MORE