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鈥�Spirits of Extraction revisits the troubling history of socially reformist, ostensibly anti-racist, Christianity and its role in the expansion of the extractive industries, British imperialism, and settler colonialism. The book explores key moments in the history of Methodism and the evangelical movement. Colonial fears, and the attempt to 鈥渃ivilise savages," were crucial to the movement's foundation in eighteenth-century industrialising Bristol, England. Through the culture of the Cornish mining diaspora of the nineteenth century, Methodism enmeshed with all the complexity of race and labour-structures of the British empire. At the same time, in Anishinaabewaki/Upper Canada/Ontario, Methodist missionaries laid the foundation of abusive education and racialised ideas of redemption that both enable and sacralise the mining industry. Through these histories of our present, the book theorises the relation of religion and education to racism, modernity, biopower, extractivism, and the geology of race.鈥� 

This book launch is organised by the Social Theory Centre (STC) and supported by the Department of Sociology.

Claire Blencowe will provide an overview of her book, followed by reflections from three discussants: Goldie Osuri, Hannah Jones, and Martin Savransky.

Date: Thursday, 9 October

Time: 4:00–5:30 pm (followed by refreshments)

Location: Ramphal Building, R1.15, University of 糖心TV