So-called extractive peripheries are zones of intensive exploitation of natural resources, created and sustained by an ideological apparatus that opposes civilization to nature and center to margin (later reformulated as developed versus underdeveloped). These territories\u2014objects of usufruct, carved out from broader geographic and social spaces of belonging\u2014constitute one of the conditions of possibility for extractive capitalism, both because of their intrinsic wealth and because their creative marginalization allows them to be transformed into sacrifice zones. They are places occupied\u2014in several senses\u2014and transformed\u2014at different scales\u2014by actors, technologies and non-human species\u2014local or massively drawn in\u2014whose presence often predates the very conception of the extractive process itself. These “peripheries” are therefore endowed with a centrality and historicity that impart native characteristics and shape the Latin American histories of global capitalism.
\nThe implementation of extractivism in our countries follows dissimilar temporalities, but is always bound to “civilizing” projects that prepare and justify the complex relationship between capital and zones of production, extraction, circulation and export of commodities. Its impact has consequences that shape present-day reality and are weighed ambivalently according to the interests and dispositions of the agents involved. These particular sites and trajectories can be approached through case studies that\u2014starting from specific roles and perspectives\u2014highlight the peculiarity of different scenarios, showing their mode of integration into national and transnational dynamics with economic, social, political and cultural orientations of every kind and at different levels. What is needed here is an anthropology of extractivist contexts with a longue dur\u00e9e approach that, as a critical social science, can take a position based first on understanding the multiple and often contradictory situations at play.
\nPapers should address case studies and, although they may adopt any spatio-temporal framework, must include a historical perspective that allows for analysis of the development of the issue presented. We encourage explanatory frameworks concerning the links between the activities and strategies of the various agents within the structure of domination, in the context of the different and successive state policies framing the expansion of global capitalism. We suggest addressing, though not exclusively:
\nActions and projects of local and central powers in relation to their insertion into macro-regional markets.
\nApproaches to conflicts and disputes: forms of expression, mechanisms of control and\/or regulation, and negotiation strategies.
\nModes of participation of subaltern populations and dominant strata, including processes of social hybridization and mixed roles.
\nThe inclusion and articulation of non-human objects and species in the unfolding of technical, economic, political and environmental processes and conjunctures.
\nWe encourage approaches that relate different spatial and temporal scales in order to understand the unfolding of technical, economic, political and environmental processes and conjunctures in territories historically traversed by extractive dynamics with strong implications for the present of our communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","simposio_area":[44],"class_list":["post-10300","simposio","type-simposio","status-publish","hentry","simposio_area-antropologia-y-antropologia-social"],"yoast_head":"\n