Territories of Life

Mario Blaser is Professor at Memorial University. Sylvie Poirier is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Université Laval. Penelope Anthias is Associate Professor at Durham University.

• Introduction: Territories of Life and the Struggles for Heterogenous WorldsMario Blaser, Sylvie Poirier, and Penelope Anthias Chapter 1: Aymara Women and Social Production Dynamics: Case Study in Cantapa Marka, BoliviaYamila Gutierrez-CallisayaPART I: EQUIVOCATIONSChapter 2: Recovering the Yrmo and its Entanglement in ParaguayLorna QuirogaChapter 3: Territoriality and Co-management in Nitassinan/LabradorCarolina TytelmanChapter 4: Atikamekw Nehirowisiw Otiperitamo[so]win: Indigenous Territorialities, Relative Autonomies, and Entangled SovereigntiesBenoit Éthier and Sipi FlamandPART II: ENTANGLEMENTSChapter 5: Entangled Roots: Indigenous Life Projects and the State on FormosaScott E. Simon Chapter 6: Dispossession of the Guarani Territory of Karapari: Contradictions within the Plurinational State of BoliviaHernán Ruíz FournierChapter 7: Iyiyiwch Territorialities of Intimacy: Walking, Paddling, and Hunting on nocimic and iyiniw astcheePaul WattezPART 3: ENDURANCESChapter 8: “We don’t want to be refugees in our own country”: Climate Change, Entangled Territorialities and Life Projects in Zenadth Kes and Walbunja Country, AustraliaAnnick Thomassin, Adam Nye, Jacinda Baragud, and Kim SpurwayChapter 9: “It Had the Biggest Spring Salmon Run, It was a Land of Plenty for All!”: Social Transformations, St’át’imc (Salish) Knowledge, and Territories of Life Endurances in the Bridge River ValleySarah Moritz and Qwalqwalten (Garry John)Chapter 10: Constructing Divergent Territoriality: From Slavery to the Creation of Black Communities in Western ColombiaCristina RojasContributorsIndex

"In the face of unprecedented socioecological crises, this collection argues for the need to think more deeply about alternative ways to live and disrupt the deadly cult of modernity." Tyler McCreary, Florida State University