| Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism: Ethnographies from South America 2019 Edition Contributor(s): Vindal Ødegaard, Cecilie (Editor), Rivera Andía, Juan Javier (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3319934341 ISBN-13: 9783319934341 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $56.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Sociology - General - Nature | Natural Resources |
| Dewey: 111 |
| Series: Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.44 lbs) 282 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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? |
