Description
Book Synopsis
Extending decolonial theory into greater conversation with race, sexuality, and Indigenous studies, Macarena Gómez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative practices of South American indigenous activists, intellectuals, and artists that emerge in opposition to the ruinous effects of extractive capital.
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The Extractive Zone offers a glimpse into what kind of world may be possible through the everyday practices and knowledges of submerged perspectives." -- Megan Spencer * The New Inquiry *
"A timely study. . . . The result of substantive situated fieldwork. . . . There may be no greater testament to the value and urgency of decolonial approaches to embodied vernacular knowledge today." -- Kimberly Richards * TDR: The Drama Review *
"Gómez-Barris’s compelling text grapples with the destruction and death dealt by extractive industries. . . . This is all provocative and engaging material, particularly when set against political economic critiques of extractivism." -- Joe Bryan * The Americas *
"Gómez-Barris’s writing provides an anecdote to technocratic visions of 'green capitalism' by foregrounding questions of justice, identity, and the contingency of politics. Scholars interested in the debates animating anti-extractive social movements in Latin America and beyond should begin here." -- Matthew Shutzer * Enterprise & Society *
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The Extractive Zone contributes an important feminist and indigenous hemispheric genealogy and cultural studies lens on current political economic debates circulating in Latin America and beyond regarding alternatives to growth-oriented, capitalist and extractive-based models of development. The book also complicates heroic and romantic readings of the conceptual and legal mechanisms surrounding the state-based rhetoric of
buen vivir in Latin American constitutionalism that too often appear uncritically examined in scholarship produced in the global North." -- Kristina Lyons * Journal of Latin American Studies *
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Preface. Below the Surface xiii
Introduction. Submerged Perspectives 1
1. The Intangibility of the Yasuní 17
2. Andean Phenomenology and New Age Settler Colonialism 39
3. An Archive for the Future: Seeing through Occupation 66
4. A Fish-Eye Episteme: Seeing Below the River's Colonization 91
5. Decolonial Gestures: Anarcho-Feminist Indigenous Critique 110
Conclusion. The View from Below 133
Notes 139
Bibliography 165
Index 179
