Reverberations of extractivism: The long epilogue of the coal story in East Germany
Authors: Friederike Pank
Location: Germany
Themes: Climate, Extractivism
Welzow, a provincial coal mining town in the Lusatian mining district of Eastern Germany, is an exemplary case of how the transition from extractivism to post-extractivism reaches the limit of anthropocentric technological solutionism, calling for a radically new approach, anthropologist Friederike Pank argues in her contribution to the Berliner Gazette text series 'After Extractivism'.