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)

• Published in: IdeAs
• Main Author: Scorer, James
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Institut des Amériques 2022
• Subjects: 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; Chaco; Cossio; Mackenzie River; Northwest Territories; Mackenzie river; Territoires du Nord-Ouest
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/ideas/12440

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...