Creating Worlds Otherwise: Art, Collective Action, and (Post)Extractivism (Performing Latin American and Caribbean Identities)

Serafini, Paula

ISBN 10: 0826504558 / ISBN 13: 9780826504555

Published by Vanderbilt University Press, 2022

About this Item

In.

Seller Inventory # ria9780826504555_new

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Creating Worlds Otherwise: Art, Collective Action, and (Post)Extractivism (Performing Latin American and Caribbean Identities)
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826504558
• ISBN 13: 9780826504555
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Honorable Mention, Best Book in Latin American Visual Culture Studies, Latin American Studies Association–Visual Culture Studies Section, 2023

Extractivism has increasingly become the ground on which activists and scholars in Latin America frame the dynamics of ecological devastation, accumulation of wealth, and erosion of rights. These maladies are the direct consequences of long-standing extraction-oriented economies, and more recently from the expansion of the extractive frontier and the implementation of new technologies in the extraction of fossil fuels, mining, and agriculture. But the fields of sociology, political ecology, anthropology, and geography have largely ignored the role of art and cultural practices in studies of extractivism and post-extractivism.

The field of art theory, on the other hand, has offered a number of texts that put forward insightful analyses of artwork addressing extraction, environmental devastation, and the climate crisis. However, an art theory perspective that does not engage firsthand and in depth with collective action remains limited and fails to provide an account of the role, processes, and politics of art in anti- and post-extractivist movements.

Creating Worlds Otherwise examines the narratives that subaltern groups generate around extractivism, and how they develop, communicate, and mobilize these narratives through art and cultural practices. It reports on a six-year project on creative resistance to extractivism in Argentina and builds on long-term engagement working on environmental justice projects and campaigns in Argentina and the UK.

It is an innovative contribution to the fields of Latin American studies, political ecology, cultural studies, and art theory, and addresses pressing questions regarding what post-extractivist worlds might look like as well as how such visions are put into practice.

About the Author

Paula Serafini is a lecturer [assistant professor] in creative and cultural industries in the Department of Business and Society at Queen Mary University of London.