Bodies of Extraction: Uncovering the Hidden Depths of Island Undergrounds - Perfect for Geology Enthusiasts & Island Exploration

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What does it mean to drill deep and interfere with the configuration of tectonic plates? What does it mean to hollow out and alienate islandic undergrounds? How is wealth extracted and exploited from the ground, crumbled into fragments, transformed into matter, pieces of power, moved away to be represented elsewhere? Whose lungs and souls are capitalised upon and hidden under the suffocating dust in mining shafts? To whom do the surface of the land and its underground belong?

This book takes proto-industrial mining in the Aegean island of Serifos as an entry point for disclosing historical and contemporary consequences of politics of the soil through land extraction, and looks at how mineral evidence was historically produced, disseminated, and capitalised upon in the Aegean region and beyond.

Published by kyklàda.press
Softcover
96 Pages
102 x 162 mm
ISBN 9789464202885