Don’t wake up the dragon! Monstrous geontologies in a mining waste impoundment
Don’t wake up the dragon! Monstrous geontologies in a mining waste impoundment
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不要唤醒采矿废料蓄水池中的巨龙！
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2018
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通讯作者：
Patricio Flores
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Sebastián Ureta;Patricio Flores
本文邀请人们将尾矿（采矿活动产生的最重要的副产品）视为废物，而不是通常的废物，而是废物管理计划的治理对象。在此过程中，它应用了 Elizabeth Povinelli 关于地质动力/地质学的概念来分析专门用于管理位于智利中部的大型铜矿 Mina El Teniente 产生的尾矿的实践。从这个框架来看，矿山的尾矿蓄水池既是一条“龙”，又是一个“骗子”，这些实体被赋予了巨大的生命力，公开挑战了采矿业通常的地质学，而地质学的基础是将蓄水池理解为温顺的无生命沙漠，非常容易被资本主义剥削/遗忘。相反，龙/骗子制定了一种地质学，其中人类似乎最终无法真正控制非生命实体，只能依靠他们的善意来避免环境灾难。正如结论中将探讨的那样，对这种地质学的接受挑战我们发展一种地质畸形学，或者我们应该设计一套替代的政治和道德承诺，以便开始更好地生活在采矿废物的可怕地质学中。
This paper is an invitation to view tailings – the most prominent byproduct generated by mining activity – as more than their usual incarnation as waste, object of governance by waste management programs. In doing so, it applies Elizabeth Povinelli’s notions about geontopower/geontologies to analyze the practices devoted to managing the tailings produced by Mina El Teniente, a large copper mine located in central Chile. From this framework, the mine’s tailings impoundment are enacted as both a “dragon” and a “trickster”, entities endowed with a monstrous vitality that openly challenges the mining industry’s usual geontologies, which are based on understanding impoundments as docile nonliving deserts very much open to capitalist exploitation/forgetting. On the contrary, the dragon/trickster enacts a geontology in which human beings appear as ultimately unable to truly control nonliving entities, and depend only on their goodwill to avoid environmental disaster. The acceptance of such a geontology, as will be explored in the conclusions, challenges us to develop a geo-teratology, or a set of alternative political and ethical commitments we should devise in order to start better living with the monstrous geontologies of mining waste.
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作者：
Hayes, Sarah M.;Root, Robert A.;Perdrial, Nicolas;Maier, Raina M.;Chorover, Jon
通讯作者：
Chorover, Jon