'Mine the volume' : excess and the voluminous ecological politics of capitalist frontiers
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| Názov: | 'Mine the volume' : excess and the voluminous ecological politics of capitalist frontiers |
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| Autori: | Collins, Yolanda Ariadne, Reeves-Evison, Theo, Barlow, Matt, Cole, Lydia E.S. |
| Prispievatelia: | University of St Andrews.Centre for Global Law and Governance, University of St Andrews.School of International Relations, University of St Andrews.Centre for Energy Ethics, University of St Andrews.Geographies of Sustainability, Society, Inequalities and Possibilities, University of St Andrews.Environmental Change Research Group, University of St Andrews.School of Geography & Sustainable Development |
| Rok vydania: | 2025 |
| Zbierka: | University of St Andrews: Digital Research Repository |
| Predmety: | Mining, Deep sea, Outer space, Amazon basin, Environmental governmentality, Volume, NDAS |
| Popis: | Funding: The authors benefitted from internal funding made available through the St Andrews Interdisciplinary Research Support Fund. ; Mining frontiers are moving ever further beyond Earth's surface, as new subterranean realms, the seafloor, the atmosphere and outer space increasingly come into the purview of entrepreneurial activity. In this paper, we deploy an environmental governmentality analytic to examine mining as a site-specific, intervening activity that brings the relationship between these different material spaces into view. We recognise that as mining expands through technological advancement ever further beyond its previous terrestrial foundations, it builds on and deepens colonial environmental governance strategies. We argue that as it does so, efforts to govern mining are likely to be increasingly challenged by its ‘excess’, by which we mean the matter that surpasses surficial enclosures and goes on to produce unintended physical and social consequences for other spaces and places. We construct our argument by examining secondary data on mining at three resource frontiers at varying stages of exploitation and associated governance: (i) surface mining during European colonialisation of the Amazon Basin; (ii) ongoing preparations for deep-sea mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone of the Pacific Ocean; and (iii) the prospect of asteroid mining in outer space. Overall, the paper draws attention to the overlapping nature of the planet's voluminous, material spaces and its ability to frustrate environmental governance efforts. It offers a voluminous analysis across material spaces to burgeoning debates within political ecology. ; Peer reviewed |
| Druh dokumentu: | article in journal/newspaper |
| Popis súboru: | application/pdf |
| Jazyk: | English |
| Relation: | Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space; 314635774; 105000539094; https://hdl.handle.net/10023/31674 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/25148486251323823 |
| Dostupnosť: | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/31674 https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486251323823 |
| Rights: | Copyright © The Author(s) 2025. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Prístupové číslo: | edsbas.DF5CD518 |
| Databáza: | BASE |
Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | Funding: The authors benefitted from internal funding made available through the St Andrews Interdisciplinary Research Support Fund. ; Mining frontiers are moving ever further beyond Earth's surface, as new subterranean realms, the seafloor, the atmosphere and outer space increasingly come into the purview of entrepreneurial activity. In this paper, we deploy an environmental governmentality analytic to examine mining as a site-specific, intervening activity that brings the relationship between these different material spaces into view. We recognise that as mining expands through technological advancement ever further beyond its previous terrestrial foundations, it builds on and deepens colonial environmental governance strategies. We argue that as it does so, efforts to govern mining are likely to be increasingly challenged by its ‘excess’, by which we mean the matter that surpasses surficial enclosures and goes on to produce unintended physical and social consequences for other spaces and places. We construct our argument by examining secondary data on mining at three resource frontiers at varying stages of exploitation and associated governance: (i) surface mining during European colonialisation of the Amazon Basin; (ii) ongoing preparations for deep-sea mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone of the Pacific Ocean; and (iii) the prospect of asteroid mining in outer space. Overall, the paper draws attention to the overlapping nature of the planet's voluminous, material spaces and its ability to frustrate environmental governance efforts. It offers a voluminous analysis across material spaces to burgeoning debates within political ecology. ; Peer reviewed |
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| DOI: | 10.1177/25148486251323823 |