Growing list of publications, platforms and resources on wild clay, extractivism, land and rocks

Wild Clay: Creating Ceramics and Glazes from Natural and Found Resources, Hitomi Shibata, Matt Levy, and Takuro Shibata  https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/wild-clay-9781789940930/

Kauae Raro research collective, Tikanga: gathering and processing guidelines. https://www.kauaeraro.com/tikanga

Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction Under Late Capitalism; Martin Arboleda; 2020
https://www.versobooks.com/products/813-planetary-mine?srsltid=AfmBOorWaTt6jn1Jhc5gFwkORj7UiWP03p0kirizfkoK-xW1pNn1FA5C

Macarena Gomez-Barris, The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-extractive-zone

Juan Francisco Salazar, Céline Granjou, Matthew Kearnes, Anna Krzywoszynska, Manuel Tironi, Thinking with Soils: Material Politics and Social Theory, Bloomsbury 2020 https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/thinking-with-soils-9781350109599/

Soils matter, Elisabetta Rattalino, German A. Duarte, Andrea Facchetti, 2024 https://shop.b-r-u-n-o.it/products/soils-matter-intersezioni-tra-arte-e-scienza

https://worldofmatter.net/
”World of Matter is a multimedia project providing an open access archive on the global ecologies of resource exploitation and circulation”

White Oil, 2013, Judy Price
”White Oil is a documentary about the quarries in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. With over 500 quarries in the West Bank, stone is considered the 'white oil' of Palestine and the only abundant raw material available to support the Palestinian economy.”
https://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/54968/white-oil

Hunting and collecting, Sammy Baloji
https://lecube-art.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SAMMY-BALOJI_SCREEN_spreadFINAL-1-23.pdf

Petrified Media, Stephen Cornford
https://stephencornford.net/PetrifiedMedia.html

The Pilgrim Art: Cultures of Porcelain in World History; Robert Finlay, 2010
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnfm7

Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect, Mel Y. Chen, 2012
https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/1652/AnimaciesBiopolitics-Racial-Mattering-and-Queer

Becoming geological, Martin Howse, 2022
https://v2.nl/publications/becoming-geological

Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones, Hettie Judah, 2022
https://www.hettiejudah.co.uk/lapidarium-the-secret-lives-of-stones

https://www.a-bprojects.com/state-of-ceramics
”State of Ceramics is an ongoing series of discussions centered around evaluating the present and future of the ceramics field. The current series is on power dynamics within ceramics.”

https://waczine.com/2023/12/04/taking/
Sarah Christie, Taking, 2023

The art show, What are the ethics of digging up your own clay? Larissa Warren and Violet Bond speak to Rosa Ellen alongside Indigenous archaeologist Dave Johnston and Journal of Australian Ceramics editor Vicki Grima. Available at https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/the-art-show/karla-dickens-wild-clay-summer-/14100714

Nick Hayes, The book of trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us, Bloomsbury 2020
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/book-of-trespass-9781526604729/

Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, Ecofeminism, 2014

Property Will Cost Us the Earth, Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3003-property-will-cost-us-the-earth

Kathryn Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes, (University of Minnesota Press, 2019)
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517907532/a-billion-black-anthropocenes-or-none/

Kathryn Yusoff, Geologic Life, Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race, 2024
https://www.dukeupress.edu/geologic-life

Abdallah Aljazzar, Engineering a kitchen in Gaza, January 9, 2024. 
https://wearenotnumbers.org/engineering-a-kitchen-in-gaza/

R. L. Martens and B. Robertson, How the Soil Remembers Plantation Slavery https://edgeeffects.net/soil-memory-plantationocene/

Annalisa Metta, Il paesaggio è un mostro, 2022 https://deriveapprodi.com/libro/il-paesaggio-e-un-mostro/

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