Gediminas Lesutis

The Politics of Precarity (eBook, ePUB)

Spaces of Extractivism, Violence, and Suffering

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Based on critical theory and ethnographic research, this book explores how intensifying geographies of extractive capitalism shapes human lives and transformative politics in marginal areas of the global economy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000521108
• Artikelnr.: 63030413

Autorenporträt

Gediminas Lesutis is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge and a Research Fellow at Darwin College, the United Kingdom, and an incoming Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His research is in the areas of political geography and global political economy, particularly in regard to everyday life, dispossession, extractivism, mega-infrastructures, bio- and necro-political power, and the politics of development across Sub-Saharan Africa. Gediminas has published peer-reviewed research articles in African Affairs, Geoforum, Political Geography, Urban Geography, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, and others.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Theorising pecarity: Space
violence
politics 2 Colonial
postcolonial
neoliberal precarisation 3 Spaces of structural violence: Precarity as exclusion 4 Spaces of symbolic violence: Precarity as inclusion 5 Spaces of coping: Precarity as abandonment Conclusion Bibliography Index