PLANETARY
EXTRACTIVISM




Investigating the condition of resource extractivism, the enclosure and alienation of planetary matter, and toxic ecologies





This research explores what happens to the Earth – specifically its waters and subterranean environments – under large-scale industrial mining. Drawing on international political economy, political ecology, geophilosophy, and Earth sciences, the project seeks to challenge anthropocentric, capitalocentric, and extractivist logics of human–nonhuman interactions and ontologies that shape them. Instead, the project seeks to think with and through the Earth, the movements and biophysical processes of its matter. The project integrates visual practices, including sketching, animation, photography, and videography.

This research is conducted within my academic project “Pluriversal Waters: Tracing Hydro-Ontologies across Colonial-Extractivist Assemblages,” funded by the Kone Foundation and hosted by the Politics department at Tampere University, Finland. Part of the work is carried out in collaboration with Natalia Batrakova.






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