Overview
- Addresses how the recent resource extraction boom in South America has collided with indigenous world-making projects
- Covers an unusually broad geographical scope, with ethnographic research presented from a wide range of South American countries
- Takes an interdisciplinary approach to a complex issue and will consequently hold value for scholars across a range of fields including anthropology, sociology, political science, geology, and economics
Part of the book series: Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference (ATSIAD)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Flows, Wealth, and Access
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Extractivism, Land, Ownerships
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Indigeneity, Activism, and the Politics of Nature
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Indigenous
- extractivism
- South America
- extractive industries
- poverty-reduction
- marginalization
- inequality
- environmental damage
- ecological devastation
- mining
- energy extractive
- indigenous world-making
- indigenous life-making
- politics of nature
- commodification
- privatization
- latin america
- ethnology
- indigeneities
- open access
About this book
Reviews
“The volume … is one of the latest works within the growing body of literature on extractivism and indigeneity in the region. Clearly written and yet rich in always surprising ethnographic material, this volume is essential reading for scholars and students interested in both Amerindian anthropology and political ecology in general.” (Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 93 (2), 2020)
“With the 2000s commodities boom, Americas’ Indigenous peoples faced the renewed threats of an old enemy: extractivism. For reasons that this book tries to understand, the forces resisting this boom, whether indigenous and non-indigenous, gathered around distinctive conceptualizations of the environment, opening a door to the expression of alternative ontologies and cosmopolitics. Through ethnographic studies both in Amazonia and the Andes, the book vividly discusses the conundrums of these times from the perspective of indigenous peoples. Indispensable reading.” (Carlos Fausto, Professor of Anthropology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)“Clashes between extractivist designs and Indigenous life projects are as old as the European invasion. But, under the shadow of the Anthropocene, these clashes both further erode the commonsensical notion that non-humans are simply resources, and reveal the plausibility of worlds constituted otherwise. This superb collection of ethnographies constitutes essential reading to grasp the practical, analytical and ultimately political consequences of life projects that presuppose worlds populated by human and non-human persons, rather than by humans and resources.” (Mario Blaser, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Juan Javier Rivera Andía is Research Fellow at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism
Book Subtitle: Ethnographies from South America
Editors: Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard, Juan Javier Rivera Andía
Series Title: Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93435-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93434-1Published: 20 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06660-4Published: 31 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93435-8Published: 02 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-305X
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3068
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 282
Number of Illustrations: 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ethnography, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Latin American Culture, Natural Resources, Environmental Policy, Ontology