Disrupting the Patrón : Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay's Chaco / Joel E. Correia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Correia, Joel E., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental justice--Chaco Boreal (Paraguay and Bolivia).

Environmental justice.

Indians of South America--Land tenure--Chaco Boreal (Paraguay and Bolivia).

Indians of South America.

Indians of South America--Political activity--Chaco Boreal (Paraguay and Bolivia).

Settler colonialism--Chaco Boreal (Paraguay and Bolivia).

Settler colonialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the Paraguayan Chaco, cattle ranching drives some of the world's fastest deforestation and most extreme land tenure inequality, with grave impacts on Indigenous well-being. Disrupting the Patrón traces struggles by the Enxet and Sanapaná peoples to reclaim their ancestral lands from the cattle ranches where they labored as peons, to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and through their decades-long resistance in pursuit of decolonial futures. Joel E. Correia shows how Enxet and Sanapaná communities employ a dialectics of disruption by working with and against the law to challenge settler land control and enact environmental justice. Transiting contested geographies, Correia demonstrates that efforts to control land and resources reveal the limits of settler law to ensure Indigenous rights; in so doing, he uncovers that the politics of recognition are never merely about citizenship. This ethnographic work makes an important contribution to our understanding of environmental justice and Indigenous resurgence on Latin America's settler frontiers.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction: Environmental Justice Otherwise

Rupture 1 Open/Closed

Chapter 1 “A Land in the Making”

Rupture 2 Boundaries

Chapter 2: Not-Quite-Neoliberal Multiculturalism

Rupture 3: In/Visible

Chapter 3: Biopolitics of Neglect

Rupture 4: Prison

Chapter 4: Restitution as Development?

Rupture 5: Heart

Chapter 5: Five Years of Life

Rupture 6: Spectacle

Conclusion In Pursuit of Environmental Justice

Postscript

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mai 2023)

ISBN:

9780520393110

0520393112

OCLC:

1345614246