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

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Superior document:Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference Series
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (299 pages)
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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.