Our extractive age. Expressions of violence and resistance: edited by Judith Shapiro and John-Andrew McNeish, Abingdon and New York, Earthscan:Routledge, 2021, xiv +255 pp., £34.99 (pbk), ISBN 978-0-367-65052-0.

Resource extraction defines our times: global exploitation of natural resources is doubling every decade to meet the needs and wants of a human population that has, itself, doubled since 1970. Expressions of violence and resistance: edited by Judith Shapiro and John-Andrew McNeish, Abingdon and New York, Earthscan:Routledge, 2021, xiv +255 pp., £34.99 (pbk), ISBN 978-0-367-65052-0 A new wave of the environmental justice movement - ExtrACTIVISM - focuses on resisting the extraction of resources on particular lands and on empowering local communities to win greater control over their fate. [Extracted from the article]