Full Description
Territories of Life highlights the multiplicity and heterogeneity of worlds and collectives, some labelled Indigenous, as they struggle to sustain their territories of life. "Territories of life" is the phrase used in this volume to speak about the shapes that these collectives or worlds adopt in the present as they endure the heavy shadow of modernization and coloniality. This label also highlights that the agencies that animate these struggles are never just human but also include entire more-than-human collectives. To portray the complexity of the relations between these collectives and the modernization front, the volume is organized around three keywords: equivocation, entanglement, and endurance. Each of the ten chapters is grounded in long-term ethnographic work from various countries, namely those colonially-known as Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, Paraguay, and Taiwan. The book offers a grounding to discuss the challenges and possibilities that exist for the continuation of territories of life that have endured, for the renewal of those that have been severely damaged, and for the creation of those that must flourish to sustain diverse modes of existence. Contributors: Penelope Anthias, Jacinta Baragud, Mario Blaser, Yamila M. Gutierrez Callisaya, Benoit Éthier, Sipi Flamand, Hernán Ruiz Fournier, Sarah C. Moritz, Adam Nye, Sylvie Poirier, Lorna Quiroga, Qwalqwalten (Garry John), Christina Rojas, Scott E. Simon, Kim Spurway, Annick Thomassin, Carolina Tytelman, and Paul Wattez.
Contents
Introduction: Territories of Life and the Struggles for Heterogenous Worlds
Mario Blaser, Sylvie Poirier and Penelope Anthias
Chapter 1: Aymara women and social production dynamics: study case in Cantapa Marka, Bolivia
Yamila Gutierrez Callisaya
PART I: EQUIVOCATIONS
Chapter 2: Recovering the Yrmo and its entanglement in Paraguay
Lorna Quiroga
Chapter 3: Territoriality and Co-management in Nitassinan/Labrador
Carolina Tytelman
Chapter 4: Atikamekw Nehirowisiw Otiperitamo[so]win: Indigenous Territorialities, Relative Autonomies and Entangled Sovereignties
Benoit Éthier and Sipi Flamand
PART II: ENTANGLEMENTS
Chapter 5: Entangled Roots: Indigenous Life Projects and the State on Formosa
Scott Simon
Chapter 6: Dispossession of the Guarani Territory of Karapari: Contradictions within the Plurinational State of Bolivia
Hernán Ruíz Fournier
Chapter 7: Iyiyiwch territorialities of intimacy: walking, paddling, and hunting on nocimic and iyiniw astchee
Paul Wattez
PART 3: ENDURANCES
Chapter 8: "We don't want to be refugees in our own country": Climate Change, Entangled Territorialities and Life Projects in Zenadth Kes and Walbunja Country, Australia
Annick Thomassin, Adam Nye, Jacinda Baragud, and Kim Spurway
Chapter 9: "It Had the Biggest Spring Salmon Run, it was a Land of Plenty for All!": Social Transformations, St'át'imc (Salish) Knowledge & Life Projects in the Bridge River Valley
Sarah Moritz and Qwalqwalten
Chapter 10: Constructing Divergent Territoriality: From Slavery to the Creation of Black Communities in Western Colombia
Cristina Rojas
Contributors
