The Extractive Zone

Macarena GOmez-Barris is Chair of the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies at the Pratt Institute, author of Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile, and coeditor of Toward a Sociology of the Trace.

Acknowledgments ix Preface. Below the Surface xiii Introduction. Submerged Perspectives 1 1. The Intangibility of the YasunI 17 2. Andean Phenomenology and New Age Settler Colonialism 39 3. An Archive for the Future: Seeing through Occupation 66 4. A Fish-Eye Episteme: Seeing Below the River's Colonization 91 5. Decolonial Gestures: Anarcho-Feminist Indigenous Critique 110 Conclusion. The View from Below 133 Notes 139 Bibliography 165 Index 179

"The Extractive Zone offers a glimpse into what kind of world may be possible through the everyday practices and knowledges of submerged perspectives." - Megan Spencer (The New Inquiry) "A timely study. . . . The result of substantive situated fieldwork. . . . There may be no greater testament to the value and urgency of decolonial approaches to embodied vernacular knowledge today." - Kimberly Richards (TDR: The Drama Review) "GOmez-Barris's compelling text grapples with the destruction and death dealt by extractive industries. . . . This is all provocative and engaging material, particularly when set against political economic critiques of extractivism." - Joe Bryan (The Americas) "GOmez-Barris's writing provides an anecdote to technocratic visions of 'green capitalism' by foregrounding questions of justice, identity, and the contingency of politics. Scholars interested in the debates animating anti-extractive social movements in Latin America and beyond should begin here." - Matthew Shutzer (Enterprise & Society) "The Extractive Zone contributes an important feminist and indigenous hemispheric genealogy and cultural studies lens on current political economic debates circulating in Latin America and beyond regarding alternatives to growth-oriented, capitalist and extractive-based models of development. The book also complicates heroic and romantic readings of the conceptual and legal mechanisms surrounding the state-based rhetoric of buen vivir in Latin American constitutionalism that too often appear uncritically examined in scholarship produced in the global North." - Kristina Lyons (Journal of Latin American Studies)