Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism: Ethnographies from South America (Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3319934341 ISBN 13: 9783319934341

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Synopsis

Exploring indigenous life projects in encounters with extractivism, the present open access volume discusses how current turbulences actualise questions of indigeneity, difference and ontological dynamics in the Andes and Amazonia. While studies of extractivism in South America often focus on wider national and international politics, this contribution instead provides ethnographic explorations of indigenous politics, perspectives and worlds, revealing loss and suffering as well as creative strategies to mediate the extralocal. Seeking to avoid conceptual imperialism or the imposition of exogenous categories, the chapters are grounded in the respective authors’ long-standing field research. The authors examine the reactions (from resistance to accommodation), consequences (from anticipation to rubble) and materials (from fossil fuel to water) diversely related to extractivism in rural and urban settings. How can Amerindian strategies to preserve localised communities in extractivist contexts contribute to ways of thinking otherwise?

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About the Author

Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Juan Javier Rivera Andía is Research Fellow at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain.

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Exploring indigenous life projects in encounters with extractivism, the present open access volume discusses how current turbulences actualise questions of indigeneity, difference and ontological dynamics in the Andes and Amazonia. While studies of extractivism in South America often focus on wider national and international politics, this contribution instead provides ethnographic explorations of indigenous politics, perspectives and worlds, revealing loss and suffering as well as creative strategies to mediate the extralocal. Seeking to avoid conceptual imperialism or the imposition of exogenous categories, the chapters are grounded in the respective authors’ long-standing field research. The authors examine the reactions (from resistance to accommodation), consequences (from anticipation to rubble) and materials (from fossil fuel to water) diversely related to extractivism in rural and urban settings. How can Amerindian strategies to preserve localised communities in extractivistcontexts contribute to ways of thinking otherwise?

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319934341
• ISBN 13: 9783319934341
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 307
• Editor: Vindal Ødegaard Cecilie, Rivera Andía Juan Javier