How to Block the Extractive View

Macarena Gómez-Barris is chairperson of the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute and director of the Global South Center. She is the author of The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives, which theorizes social life through five extractive scenes of ruinous capitalism upon Indigenous territories (2017). She is also the author of Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Politics in the Américas (2018), Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile (2009), and coeditor, with Herman Gray, of Towards a Sociology of a Trace (2010).