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Indigenous resistance at the frontiers of accumulation

Challenging the coloniality of space in International Relations

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ID6449185
AuthorsChris Hesketh (0000-0003-1104-9582, Oxford Brookes University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume51
Issue1
Pages64-83
Publication date2023-06-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReview of International Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0260-2105 • E-ISSN: 1469-9044
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0260210523000268
OpenAlexW4381191985
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited29

Latin America has long been subjected to colonial development that has negated Indigenous territory. In the present conjuncture, the region is home to the largest volume of environmental conflicts in the world. These conflicts are intrinsically connected to the wider model of neo-extractivist development that has been embraced throughout the continent since the early 2000s. Indigenous communities have frequently been the victims of this model of extractive development, with their territories becoming the primary sites for the aggressive expansion of the resource frontier. This has generated new political conflicts, as Indigenous communities conversely assert claims to territory and resources. In this article, I link these conflicts to what I term the ‘coloniality of space’, whereby Indigenous territorial forms have been theoreticall y elided from traditional spatial imaginaries within International Relations and concretely negated through practices within the global political economy. Moving beyond the territorial trap of nation-state centrism, Indigenous forms of resistance raise important questions about the subject and actors of International Relations

Colonialism · Development economics · Frontier · Geography · Indigenous · Latin Americans · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Resource (disambiguation · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · State (computer science · Subject (documents · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Ecology · Indigenous Cultures and History · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America

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