{"product_id":"the-extractive-zone-9780822368977","title":"The Extractive Zone","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExtending 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Extractive Zone\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u0026amp; Society *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Extractive Zone\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ebuen vivir\u003c\/i\u003e in Latin American constitutionalism that too often appear uncritically examined in scholarship produced in the global North.\" -- Kristina Lyons * Journal of Latin American Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Preface. Below the Surface  xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Submerged Perspectives  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Intangibility of the Yasuní  17\u003cbr\u003e 2. Andean Phenomenology and New Age Settler Colonialism  39\u003cbr\u003e 3. An Archive for the Future: Seeing through Occupation  66\u003cbr\u003e 4. A Fish-Eye Episteme: Seeing Below the River's Colonization  91\u003cbr\u003e 5. Decolonial Gestures: Anarcho-Feminist Indigenous Critique  110\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. The View from Below  133\u003cbr\u003e Notes  139\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  165\u003cbr\u003e Index  179","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866015052119,"sku":"9780822368977","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822368977.jpg?v=1722276633","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-extractive-zone-9780822368977","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}