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Creating Worlds Otherwise - Art, Collective Action, and (Post)Extractivism (Paperback)
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Creating Worlds Otherwise - Art, Collective Action, and (Post)Extractivism (Paperback)
Series: Performing Latin American and Caribbean Identities
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Latin American extractivism has become the ground on which
activists and scholars frame the dynamics of ecological
devastation, accumulation of wealth, and erosion of rights. These
maladies are the detritus of longstanding extraction-oriented
economies, and more recently from the expansion of the extractive
frontier and the implementation of new technologies in the
extraction of fossil fuels, mining, and agriculture. But the fields
of sociology, political ecology, anthropology, and geography have
largely ignored the role of art and cultural practices in studies
of extractivism and postextractivism. The field of art theory on
the other hand, has offered a number of texts that put forward
insightful analyses of artwork addressing extraction, environmental
devastation, and the climate crisis. However, an art theory
perspective that does not engage firsthand with collective action
remains limited, and fails to provide an account of the role,
processes and politics of art in anti- and post-extractivist
movements. Creating Worlds Otherwise offers the narratives that
subaltern groups generate around extractivism, and how they
develop, communicate, and mobilize these narratives through art and
cultural practices. The book reports on a two-year research project
into creative resistance to extractivism in Argentina, and builds
on long-term engagement working on environmental justice projects
and campaigns in Argentina and the UK. Creating Worlds Otherwise is
structured according to the main themes of anti and
post-extractivist movements: territoriality; ecofeminism and the
ethics of care; human rights and the rights of nature; urban
extractivism; sovereignty, autonomy and self-determination; and
postextractivism and alternatives to development. It is an
innovative contribution to the fields of Latin American studies,
political ecology, cultural studies, and art theory, and addresses
pressing questions regarding what post-extractivist worlds might
look like as well as how such visions are put into practice.
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