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"Extractivism" as a book-category encompasses works that examine the politics, economics, cultures, and consequences of extracting resources—whether minerals, oil, timber, water, land, labor, or data—from people and environments. Books in this genre range from investigative journalism and academic critique to memoir, documentary narrative, and fiction, and they commonly explore themes of colonial and corporate power, environmental degradation, displacement of communities (often Indigenous), labor exploitation, and the social and ecological costs of growth-driven economies. Many titles interrogate the historical roots and contemporary practices of extractive industries, the resistance movements they provoke, and alternatives such as stewardship, reparative justice, and regenerative economies. The category also includes speculative and climate fiction that imagines futures shaped by relentless extraction, as well as hybrid works that blend reportage, theory, and personal testimony to illuminate how resource extraction shapes human lives and planetary systems.

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