Germanaz / Gutiérrez Fuentes / Marak To the Last Drop - Affective Economies of Extraction and Sentimentality

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-8394-6410-6
Verlag: transcript
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm

Reihe: Global Sentimentality

The romance of extraction underlies and partly defines Western modernity and our cultural imaginaries. Combining affect studies and environmental humanities, this volume analyzes societies' devotion to extraction and fossil resources. This devotion is shaped by a nostalgic view on settler colonialism as well as by contemporary 'affective economies' (Sara Ahmed). The contributors examine the links between forms of extractivism and gendered discourses of sentimentality and the ways in which cultural narratives and practices deploy the sentimental mode (in plots of attachment, sacrifice, and suffering) to promote or challenge extractivism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Germanaz, Axelle

Gutiérrez Fuentes, Daniela

Marak, Sarah

Paul, Heike

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Gutiérrez Fuentes, Daniela
Daniela Gutiérrez Fuentes is a doctoral researcher in American Studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

Marak, Sarah
Sarah Marak is a doctoral research in American studies at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Paul, Heike
Heike Paul is chair of American studies and speaker of the DFG Research Training Group 2726 'The Sentimental in Literature, Culture and Politics' at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Germanaz, Axelle
Axelle Germanaz is a doctoral researcher in American Studies at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Axelle Germanaz (M.A.) is a doctoral researcher in American studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Her research interests include environmental humanities, far-right extremism, affect studies and sentimentalism, and critical race theory.
Daniela Gutiérrez Fuentes (M.A.) is a Chilean political scientist and journalist whose research interests include environmental humanities, decolonial theory/praxis, social justice, and post-development critique. She is a PhD-candidate at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany and Universidad Austral de Chile.
Sarah Marak (M.A.) is a doctoral researcher in American studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Her research interests include popular culture, discourses on terrorism, US-American myths and ecocriticism.
Heike Paul (Prof. Dr.) is chair of American studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and director of the Bavarian American Academy in Munich. She is project leader of the Global Sentimentality Project and spokesperson of the research training group on 'The Sentimental' at FAU. In 2018, she received the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation.