Book Review: Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco

Correia, Joel E.; McEwan, Cheryl; Bryan, Joe; Anthias, Penelope

Abstract

This book review symposium critically evaluates Penelope Anthias’ recent text Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco (Cornell University Press 2018). Through deep ethnographic attention, Anthias’ text evaluates Indigenous struggles for territory in the context of “post-neoliberal” Bolivia under the Evo Morales administration, showing the variegated and nuanced politics of autonomy in an era of hydrocarbon extraction and increasingly contradictory state-Indigenous relations. The text examines the “limits” of rights and state-led territorial titling processes to radically challenge the racialized extractive geographies that shape the Bolivian Chaco region. In so doing, Anthias’ ethnography provides a rich analysis of how Guaraní Indigenous peoples are reshaping their relations with non-Indigenous landowners and the hydrocarbon industry to advance new forms of territorial autonomy and self-determination with significant ramifications on Indigenous studies in Latin America. This book review symposium draws from a session at the 2019 American Association of Geographers Conference, featuring two leading geographers who share their critical readings of Limits to Decolonization with a conclusion by Anthias that responds to the written reviews.

Citation

Correia, J. E., McEwan, C., Bryan, J., & Anthias, P. (2019). Book Review: Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco. Human geography, 12(3), 57-58. https://doi.org/10.1177/194277861901200301

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Nov 1, 2019
• Publication Date: Nov 30, 2019
• Deposit Date: Jan 29, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: May 26, 2020
• Journal: Human geography.
• Print ISSN: 1942-7786
• Electronic ISSN: 2633-674X
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 57-58
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/194277861901200301
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1278519