Neoextractivism and Territorial Disputes in Latin America (eBook, PDF)

Social-ecological Conflict and Resistance on the Front Lines
Redaktion: Anthias, Penelope; López Flores, Pabel C.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book reflects on the continuing expansion of extractive forms of capitalist development into new territories in Latin America, and the resistance movements that are trying to combat the ecological and social destruction that follows and will interest those in the fields of international development, ecology, anthropology and geography.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000933284
• Artikelnr.: 68532450

Autorenporträt

Penelope Anthias is Assistant Professor in Human Geography at Durham University, UK. Her research investigates struggles over territory, resources and citizenship in Bolivia based on long-term ethnographic and participatory research with Indigenous and peasant communities. She is the author of Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco (Cornell University Press, 2018), a Spanish translation of which was recently published in Bolivia (Plural Editores, 2022). In 2022, she directed and produced Tariquía no se toca, a documentary film on women's resistance to hydrocarbon development in the Tariquía National Reserve of Flora and Fauna. She has a PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge (2014) and completed postdoctoral positions at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Copenhagen. Pabel C. López Flores is Bolivian-Italian social researcher, with a PhD in Sociology at Scuola Normale Superiore/University of Milan 'Bicocca' (Italy). He is Associate Researcher in Postgraduate in Development Sciences, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés CIDES-UMSA (Bolivia) and distinguished visiting researcher at the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Sevilla, IEALC-US (Spain). His current research interests include fields of political sociology, sociology of social movements and sociology of territory, in a trans-disciplinary perspective.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I The territorial dynamics of (neo)extractivism in Latin
America: the characteristics and scope of the current phase 1:
Extractivism: from the roots and scope of a concept to the political
horizons of its struggles 2. Resistance to dispossession and environmental
suffering in territories sacrificed by neoextractivism: the example of
Chile 3. The Amazon exposed in the Venezuelan Great Crisis (2013-2021): the
rise of an extractivism of hybrid governances PART II Territorialities in
dispute and the dialectic of re-/de-colonializacion 4. The expansion of
agribusiness and territorial conflicts in the Cerrado of Central-North
Brazil: the pillaging of land, water and native vegetation 5. Mapuche
resistances and alternatives to fracking in Vaca Muerta, (Neuquen,
Argentina) 6. Neoextractivism, agribusiness and water scarcity in
contemporary Chile 7. Disputed territories, institutions and autonomies:
perspectives from three decades of contemporary extractivism in Peru PART
III Societal movements, territorial re-existences and alternative horizons
8: Politicizing prior public consultations: notes on the re-existence of
the Munduruku people and riverside communities against the construction of
hydro-electrical plants in the Middle Tapajós region, Amazonia 9. In
defense of life: the existential politics of relating body and territory
10: Sovereignty against extractivism: re-centring decolonisation on
Indigenous territorial struggles in Bolivia