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To the Last Drop - Affective Economies of Extraction and Sentimentality (Global Sentimentality) - Softcover

Germanaz; Axelle|Gutiérrez Fuentes; Daniela|Marak; Sarah|Paul; Heike

 
9783837664102: To the Last Drop - Affective Economies of Extraction and Sentimentality (Global Sentimentality)

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Axelle Germanaz is project coordinator of the research training group »The Sentimental in Literature, Culture, and Politics« and a lecturer in American Studies at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Her research interests include the environmental humanities, far-right extremism and right-wing populism, as well as affect studies and sentimentality. Sarah Marak is a lecturer in American studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Among her research areas and interests are the environmental humanities, critical terrorism studies, social movements, and sentimentality. Heike Paul (Prof. Dr.), geb. 1968, ist Lehrstuhlinhaberin für Amerikanistik an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Forschungsaufenthalte und Gastprofessuren führten sie nach Cambridge (MA), Los Angeles (CA) und Hanover (NH). Sie ist u.a. Sprecherin des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs »Das Sentimentale in Literatur, Kultur und Politik« und erhielt 2018 den Leibniz-Preis.

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