{"product_id":"earthmoving-eray-zayli-9781477332771","title":"Earthmoving: Extractivism, War, and Visuality in Northern Kurdistan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFocuses on contemporary art and media to examine the role of visuals in environmental violence and war in Northern Kurdistan. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Extractivism--exploiting the earth for resources--has long driven racial capitalism and colonialism. And yet, how does extractivism operate in a world where ecological and humanitarian sensibilities are unprecedentedly widespread? Eray Çaylı argues it does so by mobilizing these sensibilities in new ways. Extractivism is no longer only about moving the earth--displacing peoples, fossils, minerals, and waters--but also leaving those who witness this violent displacement sentimentally moved. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEarthmoving\u003c\/i\u003e conceptualizes this duality. Derived from Çaylı's years-long work in Northern Kurdistan, home to the world's largest stateless nation--rendered stateless by colonial policies since the nineteenth century--\u003ci\u003eEarthmoving\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the 2010s, a decade that began with peace talks between Turkey and the Kurdish liberation movement but ended with war. The decade saw extractivism intensify in the region and images of its harm proliferate across art and media. Together with contemporary artists, Çaylı shows that images challenge extractivism both by making its harm visible \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e fostering self-reflexive and reciprocal collaboration that breaks with its valuation of the colonized and the racialized only in quantifiable and marketable terms. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eray Çayli\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1477332774\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477332771\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/18\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Eray Çayli","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47001560580351,"sku":"9781477332771","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5b68142c-3643-475d-893d-ecd25f7b4355.jpg?v=1751601441","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/earthmoving-eray-zayli-9781477332771","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}