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Irune del Rio Gabiola's book is a timely intervention into the politics of extractivism in Latin America. Not only does it pay tribute to the importance of Berta Caceres and her legacy, but it also effectively mobilizes the hope and activism that have emerged as a collective response to Caceres' assassination. Ecological cosmologies and ancestral knowledges function as powerful affective structures that collectivize indigenous communities in the face of continued extractivism in the region. In her powerful examination of these precarious communities, del Rio Gabiola shows how a politics of care works towards the decolonization of women's bodies and ancestral lands and empowers an active coalitional resistance. -Eva-Lynn Jagoe, Latin American Studies, University of Toronto Irune del Rio Gabiola's powerful exploration of the ongoing struggles against extractivism in Latin America opens our eyes to the importance of affect in challenges to power. This book maps out the incredible violence of modernity on indigenous communities in the region. But the concepts that stand out here are solidarities, outrage, care, mourning and hope-all the modes of being-together that animate resistance and practices of decolonization. At once historical and richly theoretical, del Rio Gabiola's account of the work of Berta Caceres and the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras provides an important addition to our understanding of the ways in which extractivism is confronted by those communities most impacted by the endless quest for profit and progress. Essential. -Imre Szeman, University Research Chair of Communication Arts, University of Waterloo and co-author, Petrocultures

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Irune del Rio Gabiola is Associate Professor of Spanish at Butler University. She is the author of Resistant Bodies in the Cultural Productions of Transnational Hispanic Caribbean Women: Re/imagining Queer Identity as well as numerous articles on feminist, postcolonial, and queer studies in the Caribbean.

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