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Accepted Paper
Extraction as Abstraction: The survival of sustainability on a d(r)ying chalk river
Maddy Pearson
(Forest Research)
Paper short abstract
The paper explores how the discourse of sustainability suffuses the water industry's understanding of its practice of water removal as one of abstraction as opposed to extraction. The paper asks how this discourse survives in the face of d(r)ying chalk rivers in the South-East of England.
Paper long abstract
Speaking from the Seam/Pit/Well/Field: Anthropological and Geographical Approaches to Telling the Stories of Extraction
Session 1 Thursday 17 September, 2020, -