The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Dissident Acts)
In The Extractive Zone, Macarena Gómez-Barris investigates social ecologies in extractive regions, employing decolonial perspectives to uncover dissident acts. The book reveals how these zones foster new relationalities and challenge entrenched power structures, offering pathways to environmental and social renewal.
About This Book
The Extractive Zone examines social ecologies emerging from extractive landscapes, where human and nonhuman relations are transformed by resource exploitation.
Drawing on decolonial perspectives, the book highlights dissident acts that resist dominant narratives of progress and development.
It addresses how these zones reveal alternative ways of knowing and being, beyond colonial frameworks.
Through interdisciplinary analysis, the work connects environmental justice with broader social and political transformations.
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