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Introduction: Timescapes of Extraction
Antonio Maria Pusceddu and Filippo M. Zerilli

Chapter 1. Frontier Spaces in the Arctic and the Andes: The Miner, the Smuggler and Performances of (Post)extractivism
Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard
*This chapter is is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from the University of Bergen

Chapter 2. Technological Promises of ‘Green’ Extractivism in Historical Minescapes: Narratives and Materiality of Mining Revival in Andalusian Wastelands
Doris Buu-Sao

Chapter 3. Unearthing the Buried Past of Brazil’s Former Gold Mines
Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos

Chapter 4. How Industrial and Artisanal Extraction Shape a City: On Urban Planning Flaws, Encroaching Open Pits and Backyard Mining in a Congolese Mining Town
Kristien Geenen

Chapter 5. Mining Life Cycles and Indigenous Land Dispossession in North America: A View from the American West
Paul White

Chapter 6. Contentious Legacies: Post-Mining and Heritage-Making in the Italian Alps
Roberta Clara Zanini

Chapter 7. Uranium Mining in New Mexico: Global Entanglements, Earth Relations, and Awkward Ways
Targol Mesbah

Afterword: What’s to Come: Mining in a Fevered World
David Kideckel

The Global Life of Mines

Mining and Post-Mining in Comparative Perspective

Edited by Antonio Maria Pusceddu and Fillipo M. Zerilli

Afterword by David Kideckel

226 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80539-591-1 Hb Published (July 2024)

eISBN 978-1-80539-592-8 eBook