{"product_id":"disrupting-the-patron-9780520393103","title":"Disrupting the Patron","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more.  In Paraguay's Chaco region, cattle ranching drives some of the world's fastest deforestation and most extreme inequality in land tenure, with grave impacts on Indigenous well-being. Disrupting the Patrón traces Enxet and Sanapaná struggles to reclaim their ancestral lands from the cattle ranches where they labored as peonsa decades-long resistance that led to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and back to the frontlines of Paraguay's ranching frontier. The Indigenous communities at the heart of this story employ a dialectics of disruption by working with and against the law to unsettle enduring racial geographies and rebuild territorial relations, albeit with uncertain outcomes. Joel E. Correia shows that Enxet and Sanapaná peoples enact environmental justice otherwise: moving beyond juridical solutions to harm by \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDisrupting the Patrón\u003c\/i\u003e is a superb ethnography of Indigenous environmental justice as well as a nuanced account of the possibilities and challenges of land back. It deserves to be widely read by scholars and practitioners of all stripes.\" * Antipode *\u003cbr\u003e\"Correia constructs a provocative ethnography which centers on the land struggles of the Enxet and Sanapaná people and offers a timely reminder of the racialized regimes and unequal geographies that mark the landscape of a rapidly changing economic frontier in Latin America.\" * NACLA *\u003cbr\u003e\"Joel Correia’s timely \u003ci\u003eDisrupting the Patrón\u003c\/i\u003e has arrived at a moment of unprecedented national investment in environmental justice within the United States, and as Indigenous-led calls for the return of stolen land across North America continue to grow. Correia’s in-depth ethnographic study of the Indigenous Paraguayan communities of Enxet and Sanapaná’s decades-long fight for return of their ancestral lands adds critical insight to this movement, pushing the limits of how environmental justice is often defined and pursued within the states while still honoring its origin.\" * Sierra *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Environmental Justice Otherwise \u003cbr\u003e Rupture 1: Open\/Closed \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: “A Land in the Making” \u003cbr\u003e Rupture 2: Boundaries \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Not-Quite-Neoliberal Multiculturalism \u003cbr\u003e Rupture 3: In\/Visible \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Biopolitics of Neglect \u003cbr\u003e Rupture 4: Prison \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Restitution as Development? \u003cbr\u003e Rupture 5: Heart \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Five Years of Life \u003cbr\u003e Rupture 6: Spectacle \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: In Pursuit of Environmental Justice \u003cbr\u003e Postcript \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Works Cited \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402968277335,"sku":"9780520393103","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520393103.jpg?v=1730481990","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/disrupting-the-patron-9780520393103","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}