Miner la vie: Une région allemande d’extraction du charbon
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Miner la vie : Une région allemande d’extraction du charbon. / Krøijer, Stine; Kollöffel, Mike.
In: Terrain, No. 71, 2019, p. 104-115.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Miner la vie
T2 - Une région allemande d’extraction du charbon
AU - Krøijer, Stine
AU - Kollöffel, Mike
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Since 2015 Ende Gelände has become the slogan of a growing anti-coal movement in Germany, which has united around protests against the continued expansion of lignite mining in the country. The slogan plays on the double of meaning of “an area coming to an end” and “a practice in an area being ended”, pinpointing in this way both the main problem with mining and its possible solution. In this essay we visually convey the landscapes of destruction in a German brown coal region, and argue that the massive destruction of the landscape works as a synecdoche for the apocalypse. Local villagers’ experiences of having their form of life ended owing to open-cast mining, and radical environmental activists’ ongoing preparations for a Day X and an ensuing post-apocalyptic scenario, entail a substitution of the area (gelände) for the whole world.
AB - Since 2015 Ende Gelände has become the slogan of a growing anti-coal movement in Germany, which has united around protests against the continued expansion of lignite mining in the country. The slogan plays on the double of meaning of “an area coming to an end” and “a practice in an area being ended”, pinpointing in this way both the main problem with mining and its possible solution. In this essay we visually convey the landscapes of destruction in a German brown coal region, and argue that the massive destruction of the landscape works as a synecdoche for the apocalypse. Local villagers’ experiences of having their form of life ended owing to open-cast mining, and radical environmental activists’ ongoing preparations for a Day X and an ensuing post-apocalyptic scenario, entail a substitution of the area (gelände) for the whole world.
KW - Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet
KW - coal mine
KW - ecological activism
KW - Germany
KW - ruined landscape
U2 - 10.4000/terrain.18173
DO - 10.4000/terrain.18173
M3 - Tidsskriftartikel
AN - SCOPUS:85071382257
SP - 104
EP - 115
JO - Terrain
JF - Terrain
SN - 0760-5668
IS - 71
ER -
ID: 241101256