Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism Ethnographies from South America /

Exploring indigenous life projects in encounters with extractivism, the present open access 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...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Vindal Ødegaard, Cecilie (Editor), Rivera Andía, Juan Javier (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference,
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Controlling Abandoned Oil Installations: Ruination and Ownership in Northern Peruvian Amazon
  • 3. Extractive Pluralities: The Making of Life-worlds where Oil Wealth and Informal Gold Mining Intersect in Venezuelan Amazonia
  • 4. In the Spirit of Oil: Unintended Flows and Leaky Lives in Northeastern Ecuador
  • 5. Translating Wealth in a Globalised Extractivist Economy: Contrabandistas and Accumulation by Diversion
  • 6. Water as Value and Being: Extractivist MegaProjects and Ownership in Peru
  • 7. Indigenous Land Ownership in an Extractivist Context: Conflicting Compositions of the Environment in Cañaris (Peruvian Andes)
  • 8. Carbon and Biodiversity Conservation as Resource Extraction: Enacting REDD+ Across Cultures of Ownership in Amazonia
  • 9. Symbols of Resistance: Translating Nature, Indigeneity, and Place in Mining Activism
  • 10. Performing Indigeneity in Bolivia: The Struggle over the TIPNIS.