ABSTRACT
Gender relations and gendered effects remain under-analyzed in much of the critical resource geography literature on mining and hydrocarbons. This gap reflects the historically produced, structurally maintained, and ideologically reinforced invisibility of gender in these forms of resource extraction. As such, it is imperative that critical resource geographers working on these topics engage more substantively with broader work on gender in extractive industries. I focus on four lenses through which to examine diverse, intersectional aspects of gender relations that are impacted by mining and hydrocarbon extraction: (1) property, enclosure, and dispossession; (2) labor relations; (3) environmental effects and social reproduction; and (4) gender roles in activism. In exploring each of these themes, this chapter argues that stronger theorization of gender enriches and complements critical resource geography's ongoing engagement with questions of materiality, institutions, political economy, and the denaturalization of the taken-for-granted entity of “resources.”
