Extraction Zones and similar lingo
Sep. 17th, 2025 07:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I mentioned Ray Nayler's phrase "extraction zones" in my last post. Here are some podcast episodes I've listened to in the last few months that have alerted me to similar evocative turns of phrase:
I do listen to some fiction and review podcasts, not only history/analysis. :-)
- *It Could Happen Here*: Neoliberalism Part 3: Where Is Paul Volker (Dec. 2021): In part 3 of our series on Neoliberalism we look at the coup in Chile, the Volker shock, the collapse of the G77, Venezuela's failed industrialization campaign and the conversion of the Third World into debt colonies.
- *The Outlaw Ocean*: Waves of Extraction (October 2022): It's the podcast and episode titles that grabbed my attention, but the episode description is A trip to Gambia to learn how fishmeal is meant to slow the depletion of fish from the seas but is actually accelerating the problem.
- *A Matter of Degrees*: The Tongass: A Way Forward for the Forest (Mar. 2023): Marina and Richard describe the boom-and-bust extractive economy of the past [in Alaska].
I do listen to some fiction and review podcasts, not only history/analysis. :-)