Undermining Life: a German coal-mining region
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Undermining Life : a German coal-mining region. / Krøijer, Stine.
In: Terrain, Vol. online, 2019.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Undermining Life
T2 - a German coal-mining region
AU - Krøijer, Stine
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Since 2015 Ende Gelände has become the slogan of a growing anti-coal movement in Germany, which has united around protests against the continued expansion of lignite mining in the country. The slogan plays on the double of meaning of “an area coming to an end” and “a practice in an area being ended”, pinpointing in this way both the main problem with mining and its possible solution. In this essay we visually convey the landscapes of destruction in a German brown coal region, and argue that the massive destruction of the landscape works as a synecdoche for the apocalypse. Local villagers’ experiences of having their form of life ended owing to open-cast mining, and radical environmental activists’ ongoing preparations for a Day X and an ensuing post-apocalyptic scenario, entail a substitution of the area (gelände) for the whole world.
AB - Since 2015 Ende Gelände has become the slogan of a growing anti-coal movement in Germany, which has united around protests against the continued expansion of lignite mining in the country. The slogan plays on the double of meaning of “an area coming to an end” and “a practice in an area being ended”, pinpointing in this way both the main problem with mining and its possible solution. In this essay we visually convey the landscapes of destruction in a German brown coal region, and argue that the massive destruction of the landscape works as a synecdoche for the apocalypse. Local villagers’ experiences of having their form of life ended owing to open-cast mining, and radical environmental activists’ ongoing preparations for a Day X and an ensuing post-apocalyptic scenario, entail a substitution of the area (gelände) for the whole world.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - coal mine
KW - ecological activism
KW - Germany
KW - ruined landscape
UR - https://journals.openedition.org/terrain/18146?lang=en
U2 - 10.4000/terrain.18146
DO - 10.4000/terrain.18146
M3 - Journal article
VL - online
JO - Terrain
JF - Terrain
SN - 0760-5668
ER -
ID: 244366824