Disrupting the Patron: Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay's Chaco

Author/Contributor(s):	Correia, Joel E
Publisher:	University of California Press
Date:	04/04/2023
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"The Paraguayan Chaco is a settler frontier where cattle ranching and agrarian extractivism drive some of the world's fastest deforestation and most extreme land tenure inequality. Disrupting the Patrâon shows that environmental racism cannot be reduced to effects of neoliberalism but stems from long-standing social-spatial relations of power rooted in settler colonialism. Historically dispossessed of land and exploited for their labor, Enxet and Sanapanâa Indigenous peoples nevertheless refuse to abide settler land control. Based on long-term collaborative research and storytelling, Joel E. Correia shows that Enxet and Sanapanâa dialectics of disruption enact environmental justice by transcending the constraints of settler law through the ability to maintain and imagine collective lifeways amidst radical social-ecological change"--