Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism : Ethnographies from South America.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing AG,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference Series
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- Reference
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Figures
- Chapter 1: Introduction: Indigenous Peoples, Extractivism, and Turbulences in South America
- South American Turbulences
- On Turns and Doubts: Critique and Politics
- To Think Otherwise in Amerindian Extractivist Contexts: Towards an Engaged Ontography
- Extractivism, Enclosure, and Protests
- Identity Politics and Indigenous Mobilisation
- From a Politics of Identity to a Cosmopolitics of 'Nature'?
- Final Thoughts on Life Projects and Turbulences
- The Chapters of This Book
- References
- Part I: Flows, Wealth, and Access
- Chapter 2: Controlling Abandoned Oil Installations: Ruination and Ownership in Northern Peruvian Amazonia
- Introduction
- Ruination and Ownership
- Placemaking and Colonial Relocations
- Corporate Stinginess and Exclusion: Gathering and Appropriating Oil Debris
- Hindering the Killing of a Well7: The Negation of Corporate Ruination
- Toxic Waste, Pipelines, and the Redefinition of Ownership
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 3: Extractive Pluralities: The Intersection of Oil Wealth and Informal Gold Mining in Venezuelan Amazonia
- Introduction
- Resource as a Political Encounter
- Petro-Project Citizenship
- Extraction as an Intimate Reality
- The Dangers of Acquiring 'Good Things'
- Conclusion: Extractive Pluralities
- References
- Chapter 4: In the Spirit of Oil: Unintended Flows and Leaky Lives in Northeastern Ecuador
- Oil and Leaky Enclaves in Ecuador
- Leaky Realities
- Controlling Unintended Flows
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 5: Translating Wealth in a Globalised Extractivist Economy: Contrabandistas and Accumulation by Diversion
- Energy Politics, and Protests
- The Smuggling of Fuels
- Prosperous Socialities
- Mobility, Wealth, and Translations of the Extralocal.
- Conclusions
- References
- Part II: Extractivism, Land, Ownerships
- Chapter 6: Water as Resource and Being: Water Extractivism and Life Projects in Peru
- Introduction
- Conquering Water
- Respecting Water
- Measuring Water
- Claiming Water
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 7: The Silent 'Cosmopolitics' of Artefacts: Spectral Extractivism, Ownership and 'Obedient' Things in Cañaris (Peru)
- On the Treatment of Land Ownership and Certain Nonhuman Entities in Contemporary Andean Studies
- Extractivist Contingencies: A Spectre Haunts Cañaris
- A Multiple Artefact: The Iglisya
- An Iglisya-Land: Emergence and Functions of a Material Device
- An Alive and Generating-Life Iglisya
- A Church-Child: On Obedient Entities in the Andes
- Final Considerations
- References
- Chapter 8: Carbon and Biodiversity Conservation as Resource Extraction: Enacting REDD+ Across Cultures of Ownership in Amazonia
- Introduction
- Land Rights
- Ownership in Amazonian Societies
- Trio Property Relations
- Valuing Relations
- Regimes of Value
- Value and Markets
- Paths and Maps
- Conclusion
- References
- Part III: Indigeneity, Activism, and the Politics of Nature
- Chapter 9: Stories of Resistance: Translating Nature, Indigeneity, and Place in Mining Activism
- Introduction
- 'Environmental Heroes', Indigeneity, and Struggles Against Mining
- La Hija de la Laguna
- Máxima's Story
- South-South Activism: La Hija de la Laguna and Rio Camaquã, Brazil
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 10: Performing Indigeneity in Bolivia: The Struggle Over the TIPNIS
- Introduction: Vigil for a 'Failed' Event
- Performances, Politics, and Ethical Substance
- Performances and State-Making in Bolivia
- The TIPNIS Project
- Public Discourses and Performances During the TIPNIS Controversy
- Lowland Narratives: The Figure of the Suffering Indigenous.
- Mujeres Creando: Performative Acts of Solidarity
- Exercising State Power
- Conclusion
- References
- Index.