The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822368977)

In The Extractive Zone Macarena Gez-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 Gez-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. Extending decolonial theory with race, sexuality, and critical Indigenous studies, Gez-Barris develops new vocabularies for alternative forms of social and political life. She shows how from Colombia to southern Chile artists like filmmaker Huichaqueo Perez and visual artist Carolina Caycedo formulate decolonial aesthetics. She also examines the decolonizing politics of a Bolivian anarcho-feminist collective and a coalition in eastern Ecuador that protects the region from oil drilling. In so doing, Gez-Barris reveals the continued presence of colonial logics and locates emergent modes of living beyond the boundaries of destructive extractive capital.

Author: Macarena Gez-Barris
ISBN-10: 0822368978
ISBN-13: 9780822368977
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/03/2017
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.10w x 0.50d