[Environment-readinggroup] Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Achille Mbembe references

[Janna Frenzel]

Hi all,

Here are the references to Ruth Wilson Gilmore's and Achille Mbembe's
work that I promised to send re: yesterday's discussion on structural
violence and disposability:

"Premature death" 
-- comes from Wilson Gilmore's 2007 book, "Golden Gulag: Prisons,
Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California [1]", where
she defines structural racism as "state-sanctioned or extralegal
production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to
premature death"

"Necropolitics" by Mbembe
-- "sovereignty means the capacity to define who matters and who does
not, who is disposable and who is not" (from 2003 article [2] in the
section on "Necropower and Late Modern Colonial Occupation")
-- further elaborated in 2019 book [3]

This also resonates with what Murrey and Mollett write in their article,
"Extraction is not a metaphor: Decolonial and Black Geographies against
the gendered and embodied violence of extractive logics [4]"
-- "Extractivisms, as enmeshed logic and material practice, preclude and
foreclose certain futures and foster a socio-economic context in which
people are compelled to buy into extractivism as the only possible
future. Political ecologists thus write about the attritional violence
of extraction, in which 'death-worlds' are created where people are
subject to physical and psychological threats of imminent death."

See you at the next session,
Janna

-- 
Janna Frenzel
jannafrenzel.com
 

Links:
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[1] https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520242012/golden-gulag
[2]
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/postgraduate/masters/modules/theoryfromthemargins/mbembe_22necropolitics22.pdf
[3] https://www.dukeupress.edu/necropolitics
[4] https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tran.12610
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