Territories of Extraction: Mapping Palimpsests of Appropriation

Abstract: This article - framed as a methodological contribution and at the intersection between the critical urban, urban political ecology and world-ecology disciplines - builds on Corboz’s metaphor of ‘territory as a palimpsest’ to explore the representation of the socio-economic and ecological processes underpinning uneven development under extractive capitalist urbanization. While the palimpsest approach has typically been used to map transformations of more traditional urban morphologies, this work focuses instead on remote extraction territories appropriated by the global economy and integral to planetary urbanization. The article suggests the central notion of ‘palimpsests of appropriation’ as a lens to map the extraction processes. It does so in its multi-scalar and temporal dimensions and on the basis of the three intertwined frames - i.e., the productive, distribution and mediation palimpsest - shortly exemplifying its use on the ground for the iron ore extraction territory in the

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Urban Planning ; 5 (2020) 2 ; 132-151

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2020
• Creator: Morata, Berta ; Cavalieri, Chiara ; Rizzo, Agatino ; Luciani, Andrea

Further information

• DOI: 10.17645/up.v5i2.2901
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021101307331561625394
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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