Entangled with the necropolis: a decolonial feminist analysis of femicide news coverage in Latin America

Valle, Dominique A. Montiel; Martin, Zelly

doi:10.1080/14680777.2021.1988675

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“…Mack and Na'puti (2019, p. 348) assert, ‘A decolonial feminist orientation understands gendered violence, such as sexual assault, as part of colonial violence and attends to the combined processes of racialization, gender dichotomization, and heterosexualism in modernity’. These intertwined colonial and extractive logics work simultaneously alongside other forms of ‘looping violence’ (Valle & Martin, 2021, p. 5) within the longue durée of the colonial wound. Furthering the material violence upon women's bodies and personhoods, corporate and state representatives have too often responded to the premeditated violence of extractivism in ways that furthered their own power and would erase and deny the very origins of embodied violence.…”

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Extraction is not a metaphor: Decolonial and Black Geographies against the gendered and embodied violence of extractive logics

Murrey

Mollett

2023

Trans Inst British Geog

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We are witnessing a proliferation of new critical scholarship on the manifold forms of extractivism. Yet, there are risks associated with extraction being rendered a broad metaphor for innumerable forms of removal and value‐making through exploitation and misappropriation. Theorising within decolonial Black feminisms, we respond to the metaphorization of extraction by (re)asserting the need for persistent analysis on the material and embodied effects and consequences of extractivisms. That is, the specific processes, logics, ideologies, and relations of extractivism recast lands, labours, ecosystems, and bodies, and particularly the bodies of women of colour. This helps to ensure the concept does not become figuratively empty and abstracted in politically and analytically debilitating ways. Drawing on more than a decade of research with three communities entangled within and targeted through extractivism along the Chad–Cameroon Oil Pipeline and the extractive‐tourist coastline of Panama, we mobilise a conception of 'extractive logics' to refer to the unnamed, unquestioned, often contradictory, foundational epistemic frameworks that permit the seemingly‐permanent structures and relations of removal, destruction, and dehumanization. We analyse documents from the Chad–Cameroon oil consortium, which projected and then calculated the economic ‘costs’ of the pipeline's triggering of an increase in rates of HIV/AIDS in adjacent towns and cities, alongside the entanglement of capitalist extraction with the medical neglect of Black labourers in Panama. Doing so demystefies the ways that racial and gendered violence are sanctioned (and even premeditated) within extractive logics. We hope that this work challenges some of the methodological nationalism so common within extractive scholarship, and brings extractive processes across disparate South–South and black geographies into conversation, activating a cross‐fertilisation of research across otherwise distinct geographies and geographical refrains. We reflect on the imperatives for and (im)possibilities of decolonial research against extractivism.

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