Strata of the state: Resource nationalism and vertical territory in Bolivia

Terrain, politics, history

“…Some of this research has been historical (i.e. Anthony, 2018; Endfield and van Lieshout, 2020; Hawkins, 2020; Marston, 2019; Melo Zurita and Munro, 2019), but much has been focused on 20th century or contemporary political issues. These would include Andrew Harris (2015) on ‘vertical urbanism’, Donald McNeill’s (2019) recent work on ‘volumetric urbanism’ in Singapore, Rachael Squire (2016a, 2016b, 2017a, 2017b) in her work on Gibraltar and US undersea bases in the Cold War, Katherine Sammler (2019) on sea-level rise, Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall (2016) in work on the materiality of ice and the sea-bed, especially in the Arctic and Antarctic (also, see Bravo, 2019; Dodds, 2018, 2019), Johanne Bruun (2017, 2020) in her study of science and politics in Cold War Greenland, work on vertical structures and surfaces in cities (Mubi Brighenti and Kärrholm, 2018), a special issue of Geopolitics on Subterranean Geographies edited by Rachael Squire and Klaus Dodds (2020), 1 and in a dizzying sequence of papers produced for two online fora collated by Franck Billé for Cultural Anthropology and Society and Space (2018, 2019 ), leading to a significant book-length collection (2020).…”

Changing geographies of the state: themes, challenges and futures

“…Kovács 2015; Quinn 2017; Rogers 2015), but also in other neoliberalizing contexts like Latin America and Africa in the wake of debt crises or regime changes over the last decades (e.g. Andreucci 2017;Emel et al 2011;Ferguson 2005;Marston 2019).…”

“…This is particularly problematic in certain authoritarian states and institutions, as well as sites targeted by extractive industries (e.g. Belcher et al 2020;Curley 2018;Koch 2018a;Marston 2019;McCreary and Milligan 2014;Zhou 2015). In other contexts, however, some political leaders and citizens have drawn upon the ideals of social justice to advocate for 'just transitions', i.e.…”

Political geography 1: Extractions

“…Knowledge extraction remains a method of removing and erasing new and alternative ways of knowing from the cannon of established epistemologies. In response, political geographers have begun to incorporate various forms of indigenous knowledge while critiquing the removal/extraction of indigenous understandings from scientific analyses (Marston, 2019;Mitchell et al, 2020). Other scholars highlight the ways in which indigenous communities continue to resist their erasure and the extraction of resources from their communities, including mobilizing drones and other technologies to supervise and in some cases limit the extractive operations of states and transnational corporations (Millner, 2020).…”