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Angaité's responses to deforestation
The Gran Chaco, the second largest biome of South America, entered a phase of deep and fast environmental changes a few decades ago. Indigenous peoples are amongst those most affected. This dissertation focuses on the responses of the Angaité of La Patria to altered access, use and management of natural resources inside and outside their colony over the past 20 years (1995-2015). From a third-generation political ecologists’ perspective, I consider the Angaité’s adaptation a transformation of cosmographical practices because the latter contribute to the production of a particular place or territory and a particular understanding of the world.
Disrupting the Patrón
"The Paraguayan Chaco is a settler frontier where cattle ranching and agrarian extractivism drive some of the world's fastest deforestation and most extreme land tenure inequality. Disrupting the Patrón shows that environmental racism cannot be reduced to effects of neoliberalism but stems from long-standing social-spatial relations of power rooted in settler colonialism. Historically dispossessed of land and exploited for their labor, Enxet and Sanapaná Indigenous peoples nevertheless refuse to abide settler land control. Based on long-term collaborative research and storytelling, Joel E. Correia shows that Enxet and Sanapaná dialectics of disruption enact environmental justice by transcending the constraints of settler law through the ability to maintain and imagine collective lifeways amidst radical social-ecological change"--
Power and Impotence
Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos delves into the history of South America to understand the rise and fall of the so-called 'progressive governments'. In the wake of mobilizations against neoliberalism in the 1990s, most countries elected presidents identified with change. However, less than twenty years after Hugo Chávez's victory, this trend seems to be reversed. The times of Lula are now Bolsonaro's. What happened? Supported by an extensive bibliography and hundreds of interviews, the author addresses each South American country, including those who did not elect progressives, in addition to Cuba. The national focus is enriched by an analysis of regional integration attempts, providing a det...
Reimagining the Gran Chaco
This volume traces the socioeconomic and environmental changes taking place in the Gran Chaco, a vast and richly biodiverse ecoregion at the intersection of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay. Representing a wide range of contemporary anthropological scholarship that has not been available in English until now, Reimagining the Gran Chaco illuminates how the region’s many Indigenous groups are negotiating these transformations in their own terms. The essays in this volume explore how the region has become a complex arena of political, cultural, and economic contestation between actors that include the state, environmental groups and NGOs, and private businesses and how local actor...
Frontier Intimacies
Set in a Mennonite colony of Paraguay's remote Chaco region, this book tracks the lives and contested practices of indigenous Ayoreo women who commodify their sexuality, exposing the fractured workings of frontier capitalism.
Native Peoples, Politics, and Society in Contemporary Paraguay
This unique collection of multidisciplinary essays explores recent developments in Paraguay over the course of the last thirty years since General Alfredo Stroessner fell from power in 1989. Stroessner's strong authoritarian legacy continues to exert an impact on Paraguay's political culture today, where the conservative Colorado Party continues to dominate much of the political landscape in spite of the country having transitioned into a modern democracy. The essays in Native Peoples, Politics, and Society in Contemporary Paraguay provide new understandings of how Paraguay has become more integrated into the regional economy and societies of Latin America and changed in unexpected ways. The scholarship examines how the political change impacted Paraguayans, especially its indigenous population, and how the country adapted as it emerged from authoritarian traditions. Each contribution is exemplary in the scope and depth of its understanding of Paraguay, especially its indigenous peoples, politics, women's rights, economy, and natural environment.
Saberes locales, paisajes y territorios rurales en América Latina
Este libro propone ofrecer al lector algunas vivencias de investigadores e investigadoras de universidades y centros académicos latinoamericanos acerca de los “Saberes, paisajes y territorios rurales de América Latina”. Este proyecto, además de permitir el conocimiento de diferentes realidades de nuestro continente, se inserta en el objetivo político de impulsar acciones alternativas para instituir lo que está separado, restituyendo a los sistemas de conocimiento, de valores y de prácticas su vitalidad y su compromiso con lo que está en peligro, debido a la ceguera de las ideologías, la desvalorización de lo que resiste a la contabilidad y la ‘crematización’ del mercado, al igual que la sordera arrogante de la crítica que emerge de su propia irracionalidad. El libro se ha basado en diálogos que respeten la diversidad y las diferencias.
QUÉ Y QUIÉN PASÓ POR EL PASO GRANDE DE SANTA MARÍA (PASO DEL TYVYCUARY)
Este libro presenta una compilación de datos históricos referidos al origen del Paso Grande de Santa María, desde 1647 hasta 1880, los cuales señalan, contrariamente a la tradición, que el primer asentamiento en los alrededores del río Tebicuary Guazú deviene del Paraguay colonial y no, precisamente, del Paraguay jesuítico. Es decir, tiene una prosapia colonial tan antigua como muchos otros pueblos del país. El Presidio del Tebicuary, el Paso del Tebicuary y la Posta del Tebicuary son instituciones emblemáticas que anteceden a la Villa Florida (foto), en cuya decisión fundacional hay confusiones materiales necesarias de ajustar. ¿Qué pasó y quién pasó por el Paso del Tyvycuary? es la pregunta clave que esta obra responde con documentos y datos cronológicos extraídos principalmente del Archivo Nacional de Asunción.
Handbook of Latin American Studies Vol. 75
The 2021 volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American Studies.
The Government of Beans
The Government of Beans is about the rough edges of environmental regulation, where tenuous state power and blunt governmental instruments encounter ecological destruction and social injustice. At the turn of the twenty-first century, Paraguay was undergoing dramatic economic, political, and environmental change due to a boom in the global demand for soybeans. Although the country's massive new soy monocrop brought wealth, it also brought deforestation, biodiversity loss, rising inequality, and violence. Kregg Hetherington traces well-meaning attempts by bureaucrats and activists to regulate the destructive force of monocrops that resulted in the discovery that the tools of modern government are at best inadequate to deal with the complex harms of modern agriculture and at worst exacerbate them. The book simultaneously tells a local story of people, plants, and government; a regional story of the rise and fall of Latin America's new left; and a story of the Anthropocene writ large, about the long-term, paradoxical consequences of destroying ecosystems in the name of human welfare.
