Afterlives of Discovery : Speculative Geographies in the Settler Colonial Imaginary / Heidi Andrea Rhodes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rhodes, Heidi Andrea, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Settler colonialism--Colombia.

Settler colonialism.

Racism--Colombia--History.

Racism.

Mineral industries--Social aspects--Colombia.

Mineral industries.

Colombia--Colonization.

Colombia.

Colombia--History--War of Independence, 1810-1822.

Colombia--Historiography.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Taking up key episodes from the history of the Colombian state's formation, Afterlives of Discovery shows how conquest has been more than just a project of territorial expansion; it is also a project of knowledge formation, in which the very idea of the future hinges on the endless extraction of the New World's land, labor, and resources. heidi restrepo rhodes charts how the imaginary of limitlessness imposed on the Americas by European colonization--what she calls speculative geographies--has caused a continuous dispossession of native and Black life in Colombia, a dispossession which became firmly enshrined in Colombia's liberal political doctrine. Combining an intellectual genealogy of conquest drawn from foundational Colombian mapping, surveying, and painting projects with insights gained from fieldwork alongside contemporary Colombian activist groups, rhodes sheds light on the ways that colonial ideas live on in the country's deadly decades-long armed conflict. As peasants, Indigenous, and Black Colombians continue to be massively displaced from their territories in the name of making land into a productive site of extraction from multinational corporations, Afterlives of Discovery offers an alternative vision of a future without conquistadors"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Speculative imaginaries in the afterlives of discovery : space-time fabulations, settler frontiers, and the future as territory

Figuring discovery and dominium : a lingering mythopoetics and property regime

Writing the earth into the world : speculative geography and the emplacement of futurity

Settler horizons, colonizing affects : repetitions in the archive and the psychosocial mapping of Colombian national identity

Rediscovery in the light of the future : territorialization and the demographic catastrophe in Colombian geographic speculation

Corpus Nullius and the traffick in blood : biocolonialism, reproductive futurity, and the afterlives of discovery

(Coda). Un futuro sin conquistadores (A future without conquistadors).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781478060741

1478060743

OCLC:

1506392946