Making Colonial Domination Incomplete: Indigenous self-determination in contexts of capitalist expansion and violence

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

This panel addresses state-sanctioned colonial practices that aim curtailing self-determination for Indigenous peoples. Moreover, the panel analyzes how such historical and current colonial practices deem the territories where Indigenous peoples live “ready” for capital-intensive development. The panel asks to what extent these colonial practices are successful and how Indigenous self-determination at the community level may limit those efforts of capitalist development. Through the study of exchanges, negotiation, and conflict the panel seeks to put forward analyses that demonstrate how colonial practices and Indigenous self-determination efforts have shaped the context in which capitalist formations manifest themselves in Indigenous territories.

Sub Track

• Afro-Latin/Indigenous Peoples

Session Organizer

• Lucas Savino, Huron University

Chair

• Lucas Savino, Huron University

Individual Presentations

• Corporate Crossings: The United Fruit Company and the Transmission of Settler Colonial Common Sense - Balraj Gill, Harvard University

• Una misma historia, una misma cultura: la construcción de territorios indígenas a través de dos estrategias de autodeterminación indígenas. Un estudio comparativo en Michoacán, México - Martha A P Rivas, Universidad Autónoma Chapingo

• ¿Por qué tenemos que pedir permiso? La autodeterminación mapuche como límite a la expansión del capital extractivo. - Lucas Savino, Huron University