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Earthmoving : Extractivism, War, and Visuality in Northern Kurdistan - Eray Cayli
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Earthmoving

Extractivism, War, and Visuality in Northern Kurdistan

By: Eray Cayli

Hardcover | 18 November 2025

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Focuses on contemporary art and media to examine the role of visuals in environmental violence and war in Northern Kurdistan. 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 Cayli 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. Earthmoving conceptualizes this duality. Derived from Cayli's years-long work in Northern Kurdistan, home to the world's largest stateless nation-rendered stateless by colonial policies since the nineteenth century-Earthmoving 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, Cayli shows that images challenge extractivism both by making its harm visible and fostering self-reflexive and reciprocal collaboration that breaks with its valuation of the colonized and the racialized only in quantifiable and marketable terms.
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"Featuring rich empirical work and detailed analysis, Earthmoving is an important contribution to violence/trauma studies and of political geology. Eray Cayli presents a rich array of material for his arguments, providing a clear direction to how to think about the intervention of the visual in the making of geophysical worlds. Among this material, Cayli introduces the reader to underrepresented and visually engaging art projects, which themselves deserve bigger audiences. Earthmoving is undoubtedly a crucial pedagogical tool for reimagining agency in the recursive construction site of extraction and its political terrain." - Kathryn Yusoff, Queen Mary University of London, author of Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race.

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