Soil extractivism: Political ontology of soil erasure in the European Union's agricultural politics
本文提出“土壤榨取主义”概念,分析欧盟农业政治中如何将土壤视为可榨取资源,揭示其背后的政治本体论及对多物种关系的破坏。
This article examines how specific (non-relational) political ontological understandings of soils are incorporated into industrial agricultural politics in the European Union and introduces a complementary contribution to existing literature with the concept of soil extractivism. The concept is used to describe current institutionalized ways of relating to soils and their dynamics of power. Through an integrative literature review, the article links existing research on soils with the development of modern agriculture in Europe. The theoretical contribution of soil extractivism provides a conceptual tool for understanding currently dominant ways of treating soils as a key part of modernity and industrial capitalism as well as part of wider destructions of multispecies relations.