No One Can Hold It Back
The Theopolitics of Water and Life in Chilean Patagonia without Dams
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18973236 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carlota Mcallister (York University, Canada [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 121-139 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Analysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0155-977X • E-ISSN: 1558-5727 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/sa.2020.640407 |
| OpenAlex | W3139493728 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 20 |
The slogan “Water is Life” rallies anti-extractive movements across the Americas. Critical theorists, however, decry the circumscription of environmental politics by the vitalist attribution of political agency to liveliness. This article tempers that critique by juxtaposing it to the Catholic Church’s claims to sovereignty over life, deploying the resulting slippages between water and life to explore the theopolitical potencies that emerge in water’s oscillations between non-life and the divine. Exploring these oscillations in a dam conflict in Chilean Patagonia, I argue that they allowed a flooding phenomenon on a river threatened with damming to be heard as a prophetic call to action. The uprising that followed produced a rare victory for dam opponents, suggesting that a theopolitics of life has powers that exceed vitalism
Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Slogan · Sociology · Sovereignty · Tranquillity · Unitary state · Victory · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Water Governance and Infrastructure
From Watershed Moment to Hydrosocial Movement
Not as single spies’
The secular and the global
The theopolitics of protest
Divine Trust ( Amana ) and Climate Change in Jordan
Political Theology/Theopolitics
Multiple territorialities and the shifting conservation frontiers of Patagonia
The making of a conservation frontier
Life as debt, or debt to life? Water, finance and infrastructure
Race, discourse, and the origin of the Americas
Metaphors We Live By
Capitalism in the web of life
The Face of the Deep
Political Theology of the Earth
Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
Geontologies
Bodies of Water
The Marvelous Clouds
The Nick of Time
Poetics of relation
The limits of 'neoliberal natures
The Concept of the Political
Vibrant Matter
Earthly Powers and Affective Environments
Will non-humans be saved? An argument in ecotheology
| Citations per year | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |