Mining, Racialisation and the Utopia of Desedimentation in Pedro Castera's Geological Writings

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ID3817294
AuthorsJorge Quintana Navarrete (0009-0001-5960-8040, Dartmouth College USA, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume44
Issue3
Pages175-185
Publication date2025-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBulletin of Latin American Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0261-3050 • E-ISSN: 1470-9856
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/blar.13598
OpenAlexW4403802353
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited19

This article examines the close interrelation between racialisation and mining in Pedro Castera's Las minas y los mineros (1882) and Los maduros (1882). Castera's writings critically render mining as a profit-driven extractive practice that relies on the stratification of inorganic and organic matter across racial lines. Minerals and racialised bodies are conceptualised as inert matter endowed with valued properties in the service of resource extraction. Simultaneously, Castera's 'El Tildío' conjures the utopian possibility of destabilising the racial stratification that upholds extractive colonialism and its legacies in the nineteenth century

Archaeology · Art · Art history · Sociology · Utopia · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History

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