Disrupting the patrón : indigenous land rights and the fight for environmental justice in Paraguay's Chaco
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Disrupting the patrón : indigenous land rights and the fight for environmental justice in Paraguay's Chaco
University of California Press, c2023
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In Paraguay's Chaco region, cattle ranching drives some of the world's fastest deforestation and most extreme inequality in land tenure, with grave impacts on Indigenous well-being. Disrupting the Patron traces Enxet and Sanapana struggles to reclaim their ancestral lands from the cattle ranches where they labored as peons-a decades-long resistance that led to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and back to the frontlines of Paraguay's ranching frontier. The Indigenous communities at the heart of this story employ a dialectics of disruption by working with and against the law to unsettle enduring racial geographies and rebuild territorial relations, albeit with uncertain outcomes. Joel E. Correia shows that Enxet and Sanapana peoples enact environmental justice otherwise: moving beyond juridical solutions to harm by maintaining collective lifeways and resistance amid radical social-ecological change. Correia's ethnography advances debates about environmental racism, ethics of engaged research, and Indigenous resurgence on Latin America's settler frontiers.
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Contents
List of 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
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