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Accepted Paper:

has pdf download 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:

Panel C06b
Speaking from the Seam/Pit/Well/Field: Anthropological and Geographical Approaches to Telling the Stories of Extraction
  Session 1 Thursday 17 September, 2020, -