Eric Hirsch is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Franklin & Marshall College.

"With Acts of Growth, Eric Hirsch beautifully navigates the shifting terrain of southern Peru as he critically examines neoliberal capitalism's prescriptions for local performances of plenitude and growth amid dispossession. His brilliant ethnography of development initiatives offers rich new insights into the region and broader contexts of change."—Florence E. Babb, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Acts of Growth is a compelling account of how 'extractive care' insinuates itself into everyday structures of feeling in Andean Peru. Reframing conversations about extraction, Indigenous entrepreneurship, and Indigenous theorizations of non-human relations, Eric Hirsch sees one of the oldest stories in the Americas with fresh eyes. Powerful and insightful."—María Elena García, University of Washington

Eric Hirsch is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Franklin & Marshall College.

"With Acts of Growth, Eric Hirsch beautifully navigates the shifting terrain of southern Peru as he critically examines neoliberal capitalism's prescriptions for local performances of plenitude and growth amid dispossession. His brilliant ethnography of development initiatives offers rich new insights into the region and broader contexts of change."—Florence E. Babb, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Acts of Growth is a compelling account of how 'extractive care' insinuates itself into everyday structures of feeling in Andean Peru. Reframing conversations about extraction, Indigenous entrepreneurship, and Indigenous theorizations of non-human relations, Eric Hirsch sees one of the oldest stories in the Americas with fresh eyes. Powerful and insightful."—María Elena García, University of Washington

Eric Hirsch is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Franklin & Marshall College.

"With Acts of Growth, Eric Hirsch beautifully navigates the shifting terrain of southern Peru as he critically examines neoliberal capitalism's prescriptions for local performances of plenitude and growth amid dispossession. His brilliant ethnography of development initiatives offers rich new insights into the region and broader contexts of change."—Florence E. Babb, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Acts of Growth is a compelling account of how 'extractive care' insinuates itself into everyday structures of feeling in Andean Peru. Reframing conversations about extraction, Indigenous entrepreneurship, and Indigenous theorizations of non-human relations, Eric Hirsch sees one of the oldest stories in the Americas with fresh eyes. Powerful and insightful."—María Elena García, University of Washington