The Extractive Zone : social ecologies and decolonial perspectives / Macarena Gomez-Barris

Contributor(s):

Gomez-Barris, Macarena

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: USA; Duke University Press; 2017Description: 208pISBN:

9780822368977

Subject(s):

F2201-3799 History of the Americas- South America

DDC classification:

980.04-- dc23

LOC classification:

F2210.G66 2017

Summary: In The Extractive Zone Macarena Gómez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative practices that emerge in opposition to the ruinous effects of extractive capital. The work of Indigenous activists, intellectuals, and artists in spaces Gómez-Barris labels extractive zones—majority indigenous regions in South America noted for their biodiversity and long history of exploitative natural resource extraction—resist and refuse the terms of racial capital and the continued legacies of colonialism.

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In The Extractive Zone Macarena Gómez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative practices that emerge in opposition to the ruinous effects of extractive capital. The work of Indigenous activists, intellectuals, and artists in spaces Gómez-Barris labels extractive zones—majority indigenous regions in South America noted for their biodiversity and long history of exploitative natural resource extraction—resist and refuse the terms of racial capital and the continued legacies of colonialism.

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