The Extractive Zone

Name: The Extractive Zone
Price: 59.99 AUD
Availability: OutOfStock
ISBN: 9780822368977

Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives

Macarena Gómez-Barris

$59.99

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We will update you on expected arrival time to us. If this delay is too long, please let us know within 2 business days and we can give you options regarding cancelling or adjusting your order. More details on cancelling your order can be found in our Terms of Trade.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

Duke University Press
03 November 2017

Society & culture: general; Social groups

Series: Dissident Acts

In The Extractive Zone Macarena Gomez-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 Gomez-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, Gomez-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, Gomez-Barris reveals the continued presence of colonial logics and locates emergent modes of living beyond the boundaries of destructive extractive capital.

By: Macarena Gómez-Barris
Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 295g
ISBN: 9780822368977
ISBN 10: 0822368978
Series: Dissident Acts
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 03 November 2017
Recommended Age: From 19 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Macarena GÓmez-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.

Reviews for The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives

Extractivism and dispossession have a long history in the formation and transformation of the colonial matrix of power. Macarena Gomez-Barris provides a well-crafted theoretical and empirical update of this important dimension of coloniality hidden under the promises of modernity. -- Walter D. Mignolo, author of The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Option Macarena Gomez-Barris makes several major contributions that shed new light on the ways extractivism operates while identifying pathways for seeing, imagining, and living beyond the imperatives of coloniality. Grounded in feminist and decolonial thinking, The Extractive Zone advances a methodology that refuses to separate the fight against extractivism from the struggle against modern colonial and patriarchal relations. -- Nelson Maldonado-Torres, author of Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity