Memories of Extractivism

Slow Violence, Terror, and Matter

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2170372
AutoresJens Andermann (autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen29
Número4
Páginas537-554
Fecha de publicación2020-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13569325.2020.1805589
OpenAlexW3126305561
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas15

In this article, I wish to bring Davi Kopenawa's and Bruce Albert's The Falling Sky (first published in French in 2010) into dialogue with the two canonic genres of political memory in Latin America: on the one hand, the witnessing – in survivors' accounts but also in verbal, visual, and architectural forms of monumentalisation – of the dictatorial state's clandestine system of abducting, torturing, and killing those suspected of "subversion" and, on the other, the indigenous or peasant testimonios of community suffering and resistance against "structural violence" unleashed by state and para-statal counterinsurgency warfare. How, I ask, can Kopenawa's memories of extractivism – of mining and agro-induced land grab, massacres, and the wipe-out of entire villages by epidemics but also of the turmoil unleashed within the forest's fragile equilibrium of embodied as well as spiritual temporalities – be heard in a cultural, political, and juridical field that has been configured, for obvious reasons, around the notion of "human rights" and their violent transgression

Alienation · Criminology · Indigenous · Peasant · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · State (computer science · Subversion · Temporalities · African Studies and Ethnography · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · History · Law