UF Center for Latin American Studies
Published by Dr. Joel COrreia, this essay investigates relationships between infrastructure projects that have been suspended and the (re)production of racialized geographies of power in Indigenous struggles for land rights in the South American lowlands.
September 13, 2019 | Image: Sawhoyamaxa Indigenous Territory, Paraguay - Joel Correia
Dr. Joel Correia published a new article in the journal Roadsides titled Arrested Infrastructure: Roadwork, Rights, Racialized Geographies.
Abstract:
This essay investigates relationships between infrastructure projects that have been suspended and the (re)production of racialized geographies of power in Indigenous struggles for land rights in the South American lowlands. Drawing from ethnographic research with Enxet-Sur Indigenous peoples and building from current debates about "infrastructural violence" and settler colonialism in Latin America, I draw attention to the often unseen forms of labor that drive infrastructure projects while also considering the "work" of arrested infrastructure in exacerbating inequality to maintain racialized regimes of land control. Empirically, the paper focuses on a road-building project related to a landmark Inter-American Court of Human Rights decision and will be of particular interest to scholars working on Indigenous rights, structural violence, infrastructure studies, and social justice.
Read the full article: https://roadsides.net/correia-002/
