The invisible afterlives of extractivism

A queer feminist landscape perspective on Quiruvilca, Peru

Bibliographic Data

ID4464802
AuthorsDorothea Hamilton (0000-0001-7300-4350, Philipps University of Marburg, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume8
Issue6
Pages1912-1929
Publication date2025-09-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/25148486251374656
OpenAlexW4414059636
LanguageEN
References cited61

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