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Book SynopsisExtending 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.
Trade Review"
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 ContentsAcknowledgments 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
