Disrupting the Patrón : Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay's Chaco / / Joel E. Correia

• Record Nr.: UNISA996524968803316
• Autore: Correia Joel E.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• ISBN: 0-520-39311-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.73089/9808922
• Soggetti: Environmental justice - Chaco Boreal (Paraguay and Bolivia); Indians of South America - Land tenure - Chaco Boreal (Paraguay and Bolivia); Indians of South America - Political activity - Chaco Boreal (Paraguay and Bolivia); Settler colonialism - Chaco Boreal (Paraguay and Bolivia); NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: Environmental Justice Otherwise -- Rupture 1 Open/Closed -- Chapter 1 “A Land in the Making” -- Rupture 2 Boundaries -- Chapter 2: Not-Quite-Neoliberal Multiculturalism -- Rupture 3: In/Visible -- Chapter 3: Biopolitics of Neglect -- Rupture 4: Prison -- Chapter 4: Restitution as Development? -- Rupture 5: Heart -- Chapter 5: Five Years of Life -- Rupture 6: Spectacle -- Conclusion In Pursuit of Environmental Justice -- Postscript -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the Paraguayan Chaco, cattle ranching drives some of the world's fastest deforestation and most extreme land tenure inequality, with grave impacts on Indigenous well-being. Disrupting the Patrón traces struggles by the Enxet and Sanapaná peoples to reclaim their ancestral lands from the cattle ; ranches where they labored as peons, to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and through their decades-long resistance in pursuit of decolonial futures. Joel E. Correia shows how Enxet and Sanapaná communities employ a dialectics of disruption by working with and against the law to challenge settler land control and enact environmental justice. Transiting contested geographies, Correia demonstrates that efforts to control land and resources reveal the limits of settler law to ensure Indigenous rights; in so doing, he uncovers that the politics of recognition are never merely about citizenship. This ethnographic work makes an important contribution to our understanding of environmental justice and Indigenous resurgence on Latin America's settler frontiers.