Exploring the minescape: engaging with the complexity of the extractive sector
Exploring the minescape: engaging with the complexity of the extractive sector
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探索矿景：探讨采掘业的复杂性
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2016
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Meg Sherval
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Melina Ey;Meg Sherval
本文介绍了矿井开采的概念，作为一种概念性和想象力的工具，通过它来整合和代表自然资源开采方式的不断变化。近年来，将采掘过程视为“自然的”和纯粹经济性质的传统观念日益受到人文地理学和人类学领域新发展的挑战。同样，对采掘作业的多方面社会文化领域的日益深入的了解，以及采掘部门内物质性和话语相互作用的新兴工作，也改变了采掘过程（及其潜力）的概念化方式。矿山的概念旨在汇集有关采掘部门的重要见解，这些见解在代表采掘空间时越来越多地被部署。从目前在美术中的使用中挪用了这个术语，minescape加入了最近对“景观”后缀的一些挪用，以捕捉采掘部门调查的不断扩大的分析范围。从本质上讲，矿井作为一种代表性的工具，强调了开采过程中充满复杂社会文化动态的复杂方式，以及强大的材料和话语元素。
This paper introduces the concept of the minescape as a conceptual and imaginative tool through which to integrate and represent growing shifts in the way natural resource extraction is understood. In recent years, traditional perceptions of extractive processes as ‘natural’ and purely economic in nature have been increasingly challenged by new developments within the fields of human geography and anthropology. Likewise, growing insights into the multifaceted socio-cultural terrain of extractive operations, and burgeoning work on the interplay of materiality and discourse within the extractive sector, have also transformed the way that extractive processes (and their potentialities) are being conceptualised. The concept of the minescape aims to draw together significant insights concerning the extractive sector, which are increasingly being deployed when representing extractive spaces. Appropriating the term from its current use in fine art, the minescape joins a number of recent appropriations of the ‘scapes’ suffix to capture the expanding analytical scope of extractive sector inquiry. In essence, the minescape stands as a representational tool that underscores the intricate ways in which extractive processes are imbued with complex socio-cultural dynamics, and powerful material and discursive elements.