Comic-Strip Mining: Neo-Extractivism and Land Conflicts in Joe Sacco’s Paying the Land (2020) and Nelly Luna and Jesús Cossio’s La guerra por el agua (2016)
From the oil pipelines that scar the Northwest Territories transforming the lives of First Nation communities to the forest fires that rampage across the Gran Chaco due to soy deforestation, the devastating impact of neoextractivism is writ large in the Americas. To the backdrop of ecological devast...
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ftopenedition:oai:revues.org:ideas/12440 2023-05-15T17:09:42+02:00 Comic-Strip Mining: Neo-Extractivism and Land Conflicts in Joe Sacco’s Paying the Land (2020) and Nelly Luna and Jesús Cossio’s La guerra por el agua (2016) Scorer, James 2022-03-08 http://journals.openedition.org/ideas/12440 unknown Institut des Amériques IdeAs info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1950-5701 urn:doi:10.4000/ideas.12440 http://journals.openedition.org/ideas/12440 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess BD-journalisme néo-extractivisme “violence lente” Joe Sacco Jesús Cossio Pérou Canada comics journalism neoextractivism slow violence Peru cómics periodísticos neoextractivismo violencia lenta Perú Canadá info:eu-repo/semantics/article article 2022 ftopenedition https://doi.org/10.4000/ideas.12440 2022-03-13T01:28:00Z From the oil pipelines that scar the Northwest Territories transforming the lives of First Nation communities to the forest fires that rampage across the Gran Chaco due to soy deforestation, the devastating impact of neoextractivism is writ large in the Americas. To the backdrop of ecological devastation and the struggle for natural resources, local peoples across the region are faced with the impact of cultural upheaval and displacement brought about by faceless multinational corporations. In this article, I address the way two comics artists have used the graphic form to address neoextractivism, highlighting how investigative comics can create counterimaginaries of exploitation by relating image-stories told by local inhabitants. In 2016, working in collaboration with Nelly Luna Amancio and Ojo Público, the Peruvian Jesús Cossio published the webcomic La guerra por el agua, a study of the impact of the Tía María mine in Ayacucho, southern Peru, an operation owned by the Mexican company Southern Copper, later also released as a newspaper-sized pamphlet version in 2018. And in 2020 the US-Maltese Joe Sacco – who spoke at the launch of La guerra por el agua – released his graphic work Paying the Land, an exploration of the upheaval caused to the Dene in the Mackenzie River Valley by both the Canadian state and mining enterprises. Though both journalistic works are cut through by social protest and political wranglings, they simultaneously demonstrate the power of the micropolitical – in which we might include the comic form itself – to transgress the narratives and imaginaries of big capital. Des pipelines pétroliers qui défigurent les Territoires du Nord-Ouest et modifient les modes de vie des communautés indigènes aux catastrophes qui dévastent le Gran Chaco, notamment la déforestation liée à la culture de soja, l’impact destructeur du néoextractivisme se ressent de manière extrême dans les Amériques. Sur un arrière-plan de dévastation écologique et de conflit autour des ressources naturelles, ces régions ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Mackenzie river Northwest Territories Territoires du Nord-Ouest OpenEdition Canada Chaco ENVELOPE(-60.583,-60.583,-63.033,-63.033) Cossio ENVELOPE(-58.450,-58.450,-62.217,-62.217) Mackenzie River Northwest Territories IdeAs 19 |
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From the oil pipelines that scar the Northwest Territories transforming the lives of First Nation communities to the forest fires that rampage across the Gran Chaco due to soy deforestation, the devastating impact of neoextractivism is writ large in the Americas. To the backdrop of ecological devastation and the struggle for natural resources, local peoples across the region are faced with the impact of cultural upheaval and displacement brought about by faceless multinational corporations. In this article, I address the way two comics artists have used the graphic form to address neoextractivism, highlighting how investigative comics can create counterimaginaries of exploitation by relating image-stories told by local inhabitants. In 2016, working in collaboration with Nelly Luna Amancio and Ojo Público, the Peruvian Jesús Cossio published the webcomic La guerra por el agua, a study of the impact of the Tía María mine in Ayacucho, southern Peru, an operation owned by the Mexican company Southern Copper, later also released as a newspaper-sized pamphlet version in 2018. And in 2020 the US-Maltese Joe Sacco – who spoke at the launch of La guerra por el agua – released his graphic work Paying the Land, an exploration of the upheaval caused to the Dene in the Mackenzie River Valley by both the Canadian state and mining enterprises. Though both journalistic works are cut through by social protest and political wranglings, they simultaneously demonstrate the power of the micropolitical – in which we might include the comic form itself – to transgress the narratives and imaginaries of big capital. Des pipelines pétroliers qui défigurent les Territoires du Nord-Ouest et modifient les modes de vie des communautés indigènes aux catastrophes qui dévastent le Gran Chaco, notamment la déforestation liée à la culture de soja, l’impact destructeur du néoextractivisme se ressent de manière extrême dans les Amériques. Sur un arrière-plan de dévastation écologique et de conflit autour des ressources naturelles, ces régions ... |
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