Exploring indigenous life projects in encounters with extractivism the present open access
volume discusses how current turbulences actualise questions of indigeneity difference and
ontological dynamics in the Andes and Amazonia. While studies of extractivism in South America
often focus on wider national and international politics this contribution instead provides
ethnographic explorations of indigenous politics perspectives and worlds revealing loss and
suffering as well as creative strategies to mediate the extralocal. Seeking to avoid conceptual
imperialism or the imposition of exogenous categories the chapters are grounded in the
respective authors' long-standing field research. The authors examine the reactions (from
resistance to accommodation) consequences (from anticipation to rubble) and materials (from
fossil fuel to water) diversely related to extractivism in rural and urban settings. How can
Amerindian strategies to preserve localised communities in extractivist contexts contribute to
ways of thinking otherwise?
