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Author:   Penelope Anthias ,  Pabel C. López Flores
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.458kg
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9781032212401

ISBN 10:   1032212403
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   30 January 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction PART I The territorial dynamics of (neo)extractivism in Latin America: the characteristics and scope of the current phase 1: Extractivism: from the roots and scope of a concept to the political horizons of its struggles 2. Resistance to dispossession and environmental suffering in territories sacrificed by neoextractivism: the example of Chile 3. The Amazon exposed in the Venezuelan Great Crisis (2013-2021): the rise of an extractivism of hybrid governances PART II Territorialities in dispute and the dialectic of re-/de-colonializacion 4. The expansion of agribusiness and territorial conflicts in the Cerrado of Central-North Brazil: the pillaging of land, water and native vegetation 5. Mapuche resistances and alternatives to fracking in Vaca Muerta, (Neuquen, Argentina) 6. Neoextractivism, agribusiness and water scarcity in contemporary Chile 7. Disputed territories, institutions and autonomies: perspectives from three decades of contemporary extractivism in Peru PART III Societal movements, territorial re-existences and alternative horizons 8: Politicizing prior public consultations: notes on the re-existence of the Munduruku people and riverside communities against the construction of hydro-electrical plants in the Middle Tapajós region, Amazonia 9. In defense of life: the existential politics of relating body and territory 10: Sovereignty against extractivism: re-centring decolonisation on Indigenous territorial struggles in Bolivia

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Penelope Anthias is Assistant Professor in Human Geography at Durham University, UK. Her research investigates struggles over territory, resources and citizenship in Bolivia based on long-term ethnographic and participatory research with Indigenous and peasant communities. She is the author of Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco (Cornell University Press, 2018), a Spanish translation of which was recently published in Bolivia (Plural Editores, 2022). In 2022, she directed and produced Tariquía no se toca, a documentary film on women’s resistance to hydrocarbon development in the Tariquía National Reserve of Flora and Fauna. She has a PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge (2014) and completed postdoctoral positions at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Copenhagen. Pabel C. López Flores is Bolivian-Italian social researcher, with a PhD in Sociology at Scuola Normale Superiore/University of Milan ‘Bicocca’ (Italy). He is Associate Researcher in Postgraduate in Development Sciences, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés CIDES-UMSA (Bolivia) and distinguished visiting researcher at the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Sevilla, IEALC-US (Spain). His current research interests include fields of political sociology, sociology of social movements and sociology of territory, in a trans-disciplinary perspective.

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