Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America: A Tribute to Berta Cáceres

ISBN-13: 9781433159091 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 184 str.

Irune Gabiola

Opis

In homage to Honduran activist Berta Cáceres, this book examines the power of affect in structuring decolonizing modes of resistance performed by social movements.

Recenzje

"Irune del Rio Gabiola's powerful exploration of the ongoing struggles against extractivism in Latin America opens our eyes to the importance of affect in challenges to power. This book maps out the incredible violence of modernity on indigenous communities in the region. But the concepts that stand out here are solidarities, outrage, care, mourning and hope-all the modes of being-together that animate resistance and practices of decolonization. At once historical and richly theoretical, del Rio Gabiola's account of the work of Berta Cáceres and the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras provides an important addition to our understanding of the ways in which extractivism is confronted by those communities most impacted by the endless quest for profit and progress. Essential."-Imre Szeman, University Research Chair of Communication Arts, University of Waterloo and co-author, Petrocultures

Spis treści

List of Illustrations - Acknowledgments - Introduction: ¡Berta no ha muerto, Berta se ha multiplicado! Paving the Way for an Affective Journey - Preserving the Affective Being: Reconsiderations of Affect from a Non-Western Perspective - Indigenous Ecologies: The Relevance of Affect in Ecofeminist Movements - On Violent Affects: A History of Extractivism and Criminalization in Central America - From Outrage to Resistance: Social Movements in Honduras - Affective Solidarity and a Politics of Care: Reflection and Action Beyond Borders - On Mourning and Hope: A Transformational Path Toward Social Justice - Conclusion: Utopia: An Affective Work in Progress - Index.

O autorze

Irune del Rio Gabiola is Associate Professor of Spanish at Butler University. She is the author of Resistant Bodies in the Cultural Productions of Transnational Hispanic Caribbean Women: Re/imagining Queer Identity as well as numerous articles on feminist, postcolonial, and queer studies in the Caribbean.