Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism : : Ethnographies from South America.

• Superior document: Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference Series
• Author: Vindal Ødegaard, Cecilie.
• TeilnehmendeR: Rivera Andía, Juan Javier.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2018.; {copy}2019.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (299 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Preface -- Reference -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Indigenous Peoples, Extractivism, and Turbulences in South America -- South American Turbulences -- On Turns and Doubts: Critique and Politics -- To Think Otherwise in Amerindian Extractivist Contexts: Towards an Engaged Ontography -- Extractivism, Enclosure, and Protests -- Identity Politics and Indigenous Mobilisation -- From a Politics of Identity to a Cosmopolitics of 'Nature'? -- Final Thoughts on Life Projects and Turbulences -- The Chapters of This Book -- References -- Part I: Flows, Wealth, and Access -- Chapter 2: Controlling Abandoned Oil Installations: Ruination and Ownership in Northern Peruvian Amazonia -- Introduction -- Ruination and Ownership -- Placemaking and Colonial Relocations -- Corporate Stinginess and Exclusion: Gathering and Appropriating Oil Debris -- Hindering the Killing of a Well7: The Negation of Corporate Ruination -- Toxic Waste, Pipelines, and the Redefinition of Ownership -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Extractive Pluralities: The Intersection of Oil Wealth and Informal Gold Mining in Venezuelan Amazonia -- Introduction -- Resource as a Political Encounter -- Petro-Project Citizenship -- Extraction as an Intimate Reality -- The Dangers of Acquiring 'Good Things' -- Conclusion: Extractive Pluralities -- References -- Chapter 4: In the Spirit of Oil: Unintended Flows and Leaky Lives in Northeastern Ecuador -- Oil and Leaky Enclaves in Ecuador -- Leaky Realities -- Controlling Unintended Flows -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Translating Wealth in a Globalised Extractivist Economy: Contrabandistas and Accumulation by Diversion -- Energy Politics, and Protests -- The Smuggling of Fuels -- Prosperous Socialities -- Mobility, Wealth, and Translations of the Extralocal.

Conclusions -- References -- Part II: Extractivism, Land, Ownerships -- Chapter 6: Water as Resource and Being: Water Extractivism and Life Projects in Peru -- Introduction -- Conquering Water -- Respecting Water -- Measuring Water -- Claiming Water -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: The Silent 'Cosmopolitics' of Artefacts: Spectral Extractivism, Ownership and 'Obedient' Things in Cañaris (Peru) -- On the Treatment of Land Ownership and Certain Nonhuman Entities in Contemporary Andean Studies -- Extractivist Contingencies: A Spectre Haunts Cañaris -- A Multiple Artefact: The Iglisya -- An Iglisya-Land: Emergence and Functions of a Material Device -- An Alive and Generating-Life Iglisya -- A Church-Child: On Obedient Entities in the Andes -- Final Considerations -- References -- Chapter 8: Carbon and Biodiversity Conservation as Resource Extraction: Enacting REDD+ Across Cultures of Ownership in Amazonia -- Introduction -- Land Rights -- Ownership in Amazonian Societies -- Trio Property Relations -- Valuing Relations -- Regimes of Value -- Value and Markets -- Paths and Maps -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Indigeneity, Activism, and the Politics of Nature -- Chapter 9: Stories of Resistance: Translating Nature, Indigeneity, and Place in Mining Activism -- Introduction -- 'Environmental Heroes', Indigeneity, and Struggles Against Mining -- La Hija de la Laguna -- Máxima's Story -- South-South Activism: La Hija de la Laguna and Rio Camaquã, Brazil -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Performing Indigeneity in Bolivia: The Struggle Over the TIPNIS -- Introduction: Vigil for a 'Failed' Event -- Performances, Politics, and Ethical Substance -- Performances and State-Making in Bolivia -- The TIPNIS Project -- Public Discourses and Performances During the TIPNIS Controversy -- Lowland Narratives: The Figure of the Suffering Indigenous.

Mujeres Creando: Performative Acts of Solidarity -- Exercising State Power -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.