Unsettling extractivism: indigeneity, race, and disruptive emplacements

Winchell, Mareike and Howe, Cymene (2024) Unsettling extractivism: indigeneity, race, and disruptive emplacements. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. ISSN 1935-4932

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Abstract

Drawing inspiration from new work across the fields of political ecology, plantation and abolition studies, critical Indigenous studies, and racial capitalism, this Introduction to a special issue of The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology locates extraction within an account of property as a system of racialized exploitation. Aware of the risks of a cosmopolitics that romanticizes non-Western value systems as largely untouched by extractivism, in this Introduction and in the articles themselves, we center the question of how Indigenous communities and others navigate extractivism in places and landscapes that have been deeply impacted and partly transformed by resource mining, agrarian monoculture, and deforestation. In voicing demands not subordinated by a materialist and secular language of resource exploitation, these accounts invite a less deterministic account of “our” late capitalist present. We contend that just as extraction is not monolithic, neither are its refusals, resistances, and alternatives.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journ...
Additional Information:	© 2024 American Anthropological Association
Divisions:	Anthropology
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology
Date Deposited:	05 Aug 2024 13:36
Last Modified:	18 Sep 2024 17:06
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/124467

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