Eray Cayli is a professor of human geography with a focus on violence and security in the Anthropocene at the University of Hamburg. He is the author of Victims of Commemoration: The Architecture and Violence of Confronting the Past in Turkey and coeditor of Architectures of Emergency in Turkey: Heritage, Displacement and Catastrophe.
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List of Illustrations Abbreviations Glossary Author's Note Maps Movement of and Through Earth, or Extractivism and Its Aesthetics 1. Extractivist and Antiextractivist Aesthetics 2. The Art of Peace and Its Extractivisms 3. War's Hypervisibility and Humanitarian Extractivisms 4. Testifying to Survival Environmentally and Nonextractivist Aesthetics 5. Haunting as Ecology and Counterextractivist Aesthetics Movement in and with Ashen Country, or Toward Nonextractivist Scholarship Acknowledgments Notes Index
"Featuring rich empirical work and detailed analysis, Earthmoving is an important contribution to violence/trauma studies and of political geology. Eray Cayli presents a rich array of material for his arguments, providing a clear direction to how to think about the intervention of the visual in the making of geophysical worlds. Among this material, Cayli introduces the reader to underrepresented and visually engaging art projects, which themselves deserve bigger audiences. Earthmoving is undoubtedly a crucial pedagogical tool for reimagining agency in the recursive construction site of extraction and its political terrain." - Kathryn Yusoff, Queen Mary University of London, author of Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race.