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... The afterword charts three recent eruptions along the fault lines explored in this book. The first section examines the role of resource regionalism in the explosive end of Evo Morales’s regime in 2019, the second section traces a conversation about communitarian mining that began in 2014...

... This chapter describes in more detail the actual formation processes of the community councils, as well as their practices and ideals. It examines the legislation that created these specific organizing figures as part of the state’s conservationist strategy toward the Pacific region and its...

... resources. Finally, it discusses the book’s methodology, introduces the main field site (the region of Norte Potosí), and outlines the subsequent chapters. mining cooperatives Latin America neo-extractivism plurinationalism material history ...

... The figure of a billion migrants moving precariously across borders, oceans, and national and regional frontiers, often torn from homelands and cast into refugee sites or encampments, gives the lie to trickle-down economics and liberal care. Such human figures flee economic crisis, ethnic...

...Worlding the Pacific Rim The chapter elaborates an emergent regional category and global-local vision of an Asia Pacific “ocean commons” coming to be called “Oceania” as an archipelagic interzone spread inside and across the Pacific Ocean from coastal California to Asia and Australia...

... Cochabamba and Santa Cruz and to promote agrarian colonization through foreign (European and Japanese) immigration and the coordinated migration of highland and valley peasants. The program thus met long-standing eastern regional demands for attention and resources, and fulfilled the aspirations...

... This chapter examines the ways in which the aquatic space is reflected in a new political context. In particular it shows how this space has been mobilized in the formation of community councils along river basins. The river remains a key resource, both materially and symbolically, as it forms...

...To-the-Side Part 3 moves through conversations with people whose efforts and activities unfold in places that are blurred to the side, beyond the gaze of politicians or police, tucked away from noisy fights in the streets. If the region’s order is an outcome of different systems...

... This chapter demonstrates how the city’s urban government is extended into the region through projects to secure ever-increasing quantities of water from nearby rural areas. It details how rainfall in an agrarian district one hundred kilometers from the city is made Mumbai’s not just through...

... India now face increased narcotrafficking, small arms proliferation, and civil violence at voraciously increasing rates. Resistance to this dynamic violence has been carried out by various Indigenous women's groups seeking to mobilize to contain pervasive violence in the region. This chapter puts forth...

... The introduction explores the intersection of race, nature, and logistics in the context of Colombia’s Magdalena River basin. The study spans the colonial period to the present, addressing the social, economic, and ecological transformations shaping the region. It argues that, for centuries...

... issued by the Santa Cruz Geographical Society in 1904 (see “Integration of the Lowlands” in part V). “Camba” originally referred to people of lowland Indian origin, but commonly refers to all people born in the Santa Cruz region, not least those of European and mestizo descent. Leaders of the Santa Cruz...

... legal restrictions grated on town residents. In addition, a lack of resources plagued the administration, delaying promised financial reforms and other projects. Finally, however, the outright disrespect of many Spanish officials and troops toward Dominican residents provoked relentless tension...

... Focusing on the towns of Llallagua and Uncía in the region of Norte Potosí, this chapter examines how the geological and chemical properties of tin informed the growth of Bolivia’s tin-mining sector and, eventually, the rise of tin-mining cooperatives. This chapter introduces the concept...

... uneven development, and the consequences this has for their embodiments, social relations, and livelihoods. The chapter draws out the differentiated nature of their positionalities and compares the two groups in order to disentangle ethnic, regional political economy, and national political historical...

... and to promote agrarian colonization through foreign (European and Japanese) immigration and the coordinated migration of highland and valley peasants. The program thus met long-standing eastern regional demands for attention and resources, and fulfilled the aspirations of administrators, going back to the late...

... the various resistances such organizing encountered. In this second take, Snitow makes a new list, this time of the weaknesses of NGOs in general, and, particularly in the region. The list includes: various kinds of ignorance; the stress placed on community by unequal resources; common linguistic and social...

... for active support for the Santa Cruz region at the national level were coming to an end. As the radical agenda gathered steam in the highlands and valleys, including demands for the nationalization of national resources and land reform, which could have a potentially significant impact on the lowlands...

... be overcome to confront future epidemiological threats in the region. The chapter argues that the claim of a single migratory swoop of modern humans into the continent challenges a conventional anthropological picture of diverse routes. Marginalized and native populations were drawn into the making of novel...