Overview

Territories of Life highlights the multiplicity and heterogeneity of worlds and collectives, some labelled Indigenous, as they struggle to sustain their territories of life. “Territories of life” is the phrase used in this volume to speak about the shapes that these collectives or worlds adopt in the present as they endure the heavy shadow of modernization and coloniality. This label also highlights that the agencies that animate these struggles are never just human but also include entire more-than-human collectives. To portray the complexity of the relations between these collectives and the modernization front, the volume is organized around three keywords: equivocation, entanglement, and endurance. Each of the ten chapters is grounded in long-term ethnographic work from various countries, namely those colonially-known as Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, Paraguay, and Taiwan. The book offers a grounding to discuss the challenges and possibilities that exist for the continuation of territories of life that have endured, for the renewal of those that have been severely damaged, and for the creation of those that must flourish to sustain diverse modes of existence. Contributors: Penelope Anthias, Jacinta Baragud, Mario Blaser, Yamila Gutierrez Callisaya, Benoit Éthier, Sipi Flamand, Hernán Ruiz Fournier, Sarah C. Moritz, Adam Nye, Sylvie Poirier, Lorna Quiroga, Qwalqwalten (Garry John), Cristina Rojas, Scott E. Simon, Kim Spurway, Annick Thomassin, Carolina Tytelman, and Paul Wattez.

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""In the face of unprecedented socioecological crises, this collection argues for the need to think more deeply about alternative ways to live and disrupt the deadly cult of modernity."" Tyler McCreary, Florida State University ""The concept of 'territories of life' highlights the struggles of collectives to sustain themselves within liberal settler colonial societies where a modern ontology relies on a separation between the human and nature."" Juanita Sundberg, University of British Columbia

""In the face of an unprecedented state of socioecological crises, this collection argues for the need to think more deeply about alternative ways to live and disrupt the deadly cult of modernity."" Tyler McCreary, Florida State University ""The concept of 'territories of life' highlights the struggles of collectives to sustain themselves within liberal settler colonial societies where a modern ontology relies on a separation between the human and nature."" Juanita Sundberg, University of British Columbia

Author Information

Mario Blaser is Professor at Memorial University. Sylvie Poirier is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Université Laval. Penelope Anthias is Associate Professor at Durham University.

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