The extractive zone : social ecologies and decolonial perspectives / Macarena Gómez-Barris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gómez-Barris, Macarena, 1970- author.

Series:

Dissident acts.

Dissident acts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism.

Postcolonialism--South America.

Postcolonialism.

Economic development--Environmental aspects--South America.

Economic development.

Human ecology--South America.

Human ecology.

Indians of South America.

South America--Civilization--21st century.

South America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

Summary:

In The Extractive Zone Macarena Gómez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative practices that emerge in opposition to the ruinous effects of extractive capital. The work of Indigenous activists, intellectuals, and artists in spaces Gómez-Barris labels extractive zones—majority indigenous regions in South America noted for their biodiversity and long history of exploitative natural resource extraction—resist and refuse the terms of racial capital and the continued legacies of colonialism. Extending decolonial theory with race, sexuality, and critical Indigenous studies, Gómez-Barris develops new vocabularies for alternative forms of social and political life. She shows how from Colombia to southern Chile artists like filmmaker Huichaqueo Perez and visual artist Carolina Caycedo formulate decolonial aesthetics. She also examines the decolonizing politics of a Bolivian anarcho-feminist collective and a coalition in eastern Ecuador that protects the region from oil drilling. In so doing, Gómez-Barris reveals the continued presence of colonial logics and locates emergent modes of living beyond the boundaries of destructive extractive capital.

Contents:

Preface: Below the surface

Introduction: Submerged perspectives

The intangibility of the Yasuní

Andean phenomenology and new age settler colonialism

An archive for the future: seeing through occupation

A fish-eye episteme: seeing below the river's colonization

Decolonial gestures: anarcho-feminist indigenous critique

Conclusion: The view from below.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822372561

0822372568

OCLC:

1087311312