This is my lifetime dream come true: I’m honored to share that my book, Resisting Extractivism: Peruvian Gold, Everyday Violence, and the Politics of Attention, is now available for pre-order via @VanderbiltUP or your local bookstore.  https://www.vanderbilt.edu/university-press/book/9780826501585. It drops February.

How can activists stop a mega mine?
How do powerful extractive companies coerce their opponents?
How do people experience and talk about different forms of violence?
Does "violent resistance" work? What does that even mean?
Do poor countries need extractive economies to develop?

As a young activist, I wanted to find concrete and reliable answers to these questions, so I got myself into graduate school, learned a ton, designed original research, conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork, and then spent 4 years writing and editing this book.

It includes some answers, and a lot more questions, that I hope will be useful to activists and organizers everywhere, as well as to journalists and researchers who care about social movements and environmental justice.

I wrote this book for:

activists interested in movement dynamics and tactics,
people interested in the meanings of violence and how to confront it productively, and
anyone committed to environmental justice and social change.

I can't wait to hear your thoughts.

This book is ten years in the making. Along the way, a cancer diagnosis shattered my hope that this day would ever come at all. I’m beyond grateful to be alive and I'm honestly finding it hard to express how exciting it is to see this come to life. Chase your dreams, my friends.