Land of Extraction: Property, Fracking, and Settler Colonialism

＂Drawing on contemporary events, fictional accounts of fossil fuel apocalypse, and ethnographic work on the fracking and pipeline boom in West Virginia, this book explores how private property, a primary political economic and emotional structure of settler colonial capitalism, enables extractive industry, constrains individual agency, and impedes environmental justice＂--

Rebecca R. Scott is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Missouri. She is the author of Removing Mountains: Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields.