Aileen Moreton-Robinson in her book The White Possessive: Property, Power and Indigenous Sovereignty presents a collection of essays on race, dispossession and sovereignty. She argues that ‘the thread that weaves the chapter(s) together is the intersubstantive relations between white [...]
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Mercedes Biocca’s The Silences of Dispossession: Agrarian Change and Indigenous Politics in Argentina provides excellent accounts of Indigenous participation in and resistance to the dispossession by the capitalist and neoliberal apparatuses of accumulation and elimination.
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In my latest article (open access) for Review of International Studies I examine Indigenous resistance to neo-extractive development in Latin America and ask what this means for International Relations (IR). I contend that Indigenous resistance can disrupt traditional thinking in IR via an [...]
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Imagine. An indigenous woman in Mexico enters the Secretary of Foreign Affairs to apply for a passport. The bureaucrat asks, in addition to the legal requirements, for her to sing the national anthem. She was rejected. Another indigenous woman follows the same procedure, this time, the [...]
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In Gran Sabana, southern Venezuela, an ongoing process of enclosure is generating social transformations comparable to the ones associated with primitive accumulation: this process leads to the transformation of land into capital and accentuates the conditions that have for decades spurred [...]
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On April 23, 2020, the Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced an austerity plan to confront the health and economic crisis provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic. These measures secured, among other things, a series of controversial megaprojects in the South-Southeast of [...]
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Rio Tinto has been in the news again for its egregious disregard for Aboriginal heritage and sites of cultural significance. Rio Tinto’s long list of alleged human rights violations had another addition with the blasting of Juukan Gorge in Western Australia (WA). The blasts were a part [...]
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Marxist analysis of law is perhaps one of the most fascinating and protean contributions to legal theory. The volatility of Marx’s analyses emerges from the fact that the wellspring of his theory of law is in historical materialism, a factor that makes it less of a legal theory amongst the [...]
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