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Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism

Publication year: 2019

ISBN: 978-3-319-93435-8

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Exploring indigenous life projects in encounters with extractivism, the present 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


Subject: Social Sciences / Ethnography / Social Structure, Social Inequality / Latin American Culture / Natural Resources / 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 / Environmental Policy / Ontology