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Attraction to extraction: grey areas in extractive continuity in the Swedish steel transition

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Názov: Attraction to extraction: grey areas in extractive continuity in the Swedish steel transition
Autori: de Leeuw, Georgia
Prispievatelia: Lund University, Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Departments, Department of History, Human Rights Studies, Lunds universitet, Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna, Institutioner, Historiska institutionen, Mänskliga rättigheter, Originator
Zdroj: Globalizations. :1-21
Predmety: Agricultural and Veterinary sciences, Other Agricultural Sciences, Environmental Sciences and Nature Conservation (including Biodiversity), Lantbruksvetenskap och veterinärmedicin, Annan lantbruksvetenskap, Miljö- och naturvårdsvetenskap (Här ingår: Biodiversitet), Natural Sciences, Earth and Related Environmental Sciences, Climate Science, Naturvetenskap, Geovetenskap och relaterad miljövetenskap, Klimatvetenskap, Humanities and the Arts, Other Humanities, Other Humanities not elsewhere specified, Humaniora och konst, Annan humaniora och konst, Övrig annan humaniora
Popis: Sweden is a country that prides itself on its mining tradition, contributions to European self-sufficiency and, more recently, its steel transition. It focuses its greening efforts on decarbonizing and automating the steel industry. Meanwhile, destructive impacts on land and biodiversity are largely overlooked. Drawing on the literature on extractivism and on psychoanalytical conceptual literature this article analyses the continued orientation toward extraction in green transition efforts as a fantasmatic undertaking, an anticipation of happiness in the future by way of desiring extraction. By dissecting this attraction to extraction, the article points to the ways in which the fantasy helps paint the grey green without divorcing from its destructive tendencies. Though, realities of extractive harm present grey areas of doubt in extractive alignment. The research builds on 29 interviews with advocates of mining and green steel, and secondary data such as industry roadmaps and corporate information material.
Prístupová URL adresa: https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2025.2506269
Databáza: SwePub
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Abstrakt:Sweden is a country that prides itself on its mining tradition, contributions to European self-sufficiency and, more recently, its steel transition. It focuses its greening efforts on decarbonizing and automating the steel industry. Meanwhile, destructive impacts on land and biodiversity are largely overlooked. Drawing on the literature on extractivism and on psychoanalytical conceptual literature this article analyses the continued orientation toward extraction in green transition efforts as a fantasmatic undertaking, an anticipation of happiness in the future by way of desiring extraction. By dissecting this attraction to extraction, the article points to the ways in which the fantasy helps paint the grey green without divorcing from its destructive tendencies. Though, realities of extractive harm present grey areas of doubt in extractive alignment. The research builds on 29 interviews with advocates of mining and green steel, and secondary data such as industry roadmaps and corporate information material.
ISSN:1474774X
DOI:10.1080/14747731.2025.2506269