The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives Gomez-Barris MacarenaPaperback
The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives Gomez-Barris MacarenaPaperback In The Extractive Zone Macarena G mez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative…
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The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives Gomez-Barris MacarenaPaperback
In The Extractive Zone Macarena G mez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative practices that emerge in opposition to the ruinous effects of extractive capital. Extending decolonial theory with race, sexuality, and critical Indigenous studies, G mez-Barris develops new vocabularies for alternative forms of social and political life. The work of Indigenous activists, intellectuals, and artists in spaces G mez-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.
She also examines the decolonizing politics of a She shows how from Colombia to southern Chile artists like filmmaker Huichaqueo Perez and visual artist Carolina Caycedo formulate decolonial aesthetics.