Diseased Landscapes: Health and Illness in Territories of Extraction - IV - RESISTANCE

Abstract

Through the theme of Diseased Landscapes, this panel explores how the nexus of extractivism and political conflict affects environmental and human health. It aims at bringing together efforts in scholarly practice—including art-based methodologies and activist-oriented research—to historically, politically, and socially situate disease, toxins, pathogens, non-humans, and bodily dysfunction in violent geographies produced by legal and illegal extractivism. We ask how the health conditions of the environment and the body become entangled in places dominated by extractivist economies. What difference does it make to tell stories of armed violence, gendered and racialized dispossession, capitalism, mining, and agrarian expansion through human and more-than-human experiences of health and illness? How are evidence and ignorance about bodies and landscapes produced, used, and abused in contexts marked by extractivist activities? And finally, what practices, methods, and interventions are helpful to establish good relations, capable of disrupting the combined production of disease and violence in old, new, and future territories of extraction?

Chair

• Ann Kelly, King's College London

Discussant

• Lina Beatriz Pinto-Garcia, Universidad de los Andes

Individual Presentations

• Doing undone science: counter-expertise and resistances to uranium mining in Caetité/Bahia/Brasil - Bruno Lucas Saliba de Paula

• Extracting Ayahuasca, Crafting Settings for Health under Brazilian Settler Colonialism - Emilia Sanabria, CNRS - CERMES3

• Medical Enclosure, Ontological Openings: “Transversalizing” Mapuche Health and Human-Land Relations in Wallmapu/Southern Chile - Randall C Burson, Department of Anthropology, The University of Pennsylvania

• That Is the Price You Pay’: Local Rationality of Muscovites Concerning Health-Related Behavior and Environmental Risks - Daria Lebedeva, HSE University Moscow

Session Organizer

• Diana Ojeda, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia