The invisible afterlives of extractivism

A queer feminist landscape perspective on Quiruvilca, Peru

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4464802
AutoresDorothea Hamilton (0000-0001-7300-4350, Philipps University of Marburg, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Volumen8
Número6
Páginas1912-1929
Fecha de publicación2025-09-08
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/25148486251374656
OpenAlexW4414059636
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas61

This article presents the "afterlives of extraction" from one of the oldest mines in Northern Peru, Quiruvilca, where informal mining began after formal mining ended. Academic debates on extractivism in Latin America have largely ignored questions about the afterlives of formal mine closures, which leave hazardous waste and a vacuum filled by informal mining. Landscape perspectives expose past and present power structures, corporate irresponsibility, and the long-term consequences of neoliberal extractivist logics. However, much landscape literature remains implicitly andro- and anthropocentric, reproducing several dualisms that risk reducing care workers to non-agents. I advocate for a queer feminist landscape perspective that is attuned to invisibilities-the microtraces of care labor, the mythic end of mining, wider contexts of economic possibility and environmental degradation-to inform contemporary debates on environmental justice

Geographies of human-animal interactions · Sex work and related issues