Extractive Geographies in Sponsored Media: Colombia’s Large-Scale Coal Mining in the 1980s

This article examines corporate and institutional visual media surrounding the early years of the Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia. The analysis of a varied corpus of educational television, magazine photography, and a short film made by Exxon shows how an extractive enterprise sought to present its i...

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Main Author: María A. Vélez-Serna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of California Press 2024-06-01
Series:Media + Environment
Online Access:https://mediaenviron.org/article/116735-extractive-geographies-in-sponsored-media-colombia-s-large-scale-coal-mining-in-the-1980s