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The romance of extraction underlies and partly defines Western modernity and our cultural imaginaries. Combining affect studies and environmental humanities, this volume analyzes societies' devotion to extraction and fossil resources. This devotion is shaped by a nostalgic view on settler colonialism as well as by contemporary »affective economies«. The contributors examine the links between forms of extractivism and gendered discourses of sentimentality and the ways in which cultural narratives and practices deploy the sentimental mode (in plots of attachment, sacrifice, and suffering) to promote or challenge extractivism.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. --- Capitalism. --- Cultural Studies. --- Cultural Theory. --- Culture. --- Environment. --- Gender. --- Global Sentimentality. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature. --- Nature. --- Sustainability.