Introduction: Confronting Extraction, Taking Action 1. The Great Crew Change? Structuring Work in the Oilfield 2. Mega-mining Sovereignty: Landscapes of Power and Protest in Uruguay's New Extractivist Frontier 3. Marcellus Shale as Golden Goose: The Discourse of Development and the Marginalization of Resistance in Northcentral Pennsylvania 4. Bounded Impacts, Boundless Promise: Environmental Impact Assessments of Oil Production in the Ecuadorian Amazon 5. The Power and Politics of Health Impact Assessment in the Pacific Northwest Coal Export Debate 6. Contingent Legal Futures: Does the Ability to Exercise Aboriginal Rights and Title Turn on the Price of Gold? 7. Corexit to Forget It: Transforming Coastal Louisiana into an Energy Sacrifice Zone 8. With or Without Railway? Post-catastrophe Perceptions of Risk and Development in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec 9. Bringing Country Back? Indigenous Aspirations and Ecological Values in Australian Mine-Site Rehabilitation 10. Harmonizing Grassroots Organizing and Legal Advocacy to Address Coal Mining and Shale Gas Drilling Issues in Southwestern Pennsylvania 11. Images of Harm, Imagining Justice: Gold Mining Contestation in Kyrgyzstan 12. El Salvador's Challenge to the Latin American Extractive Imperative 13. Unconventional Action and Community Control: Rerouting Dependencies Despite the Hydrocarbon Economy 14 .Toward Transition? Challenging Extractivism and the Politics of the Inevitable on the Navajo Nation Afterword: An Open letter to extrACTIVISTs.