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Mapping the subaltern (2023)
Book Chapter
Anthias, P. (2023). Mapping the subaltern. In A. J. Kent, & D. Specht (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Geospatial Technologies and Society. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367855765-11

‘Counter-mapping’ refers to efforts by indigenous peoples and others to map against dominant colonial power structures and geographical representations. This chapter considers the historical evolution, varied methodologies and real-world applications... Read More about Mapping the subaltern.

Countertopographies and the futures of geographical thought (2023)
Journal Article
Anthias, P. (2023). Countertopographies and the futures of geographical thought. Dialogues in Human Geography, 14(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231171202

In this commentary, I extend Derickson's (2020) conception of the ‘annihilation of time by space’ to reflect on an experience of making a documentary about women-led resistance to hydrocarbon development in Southern Bolivia, where the forging of new... Read More about Countertopographies and the futures of geographical thought.

The Pluri-Extractivist State: Regional Autonomy and the Limits of Indigenous Participation in Gran Chaco Province (2022)
Journal Article
Anthias, P. (2022). The Pluri-Extractivist State: Regional Autonomy and the Limits of Indigenous Participation in Gran Chaco Province. Journal of Latin American Studies, 54(1), 125-154. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x21000997

On 20 November 2016, residents of Gran Chaco Province in south-east Bolivia voted by popular referendum to approve a statute that established Gran Chaco as Bolivia's first autonomous region. This article examines regional autonomy in the Chaco as an... Read More about The Pluri-Extractivist State: Regional Autonomy and the Limits of Indigenous Participation in Gran Chaco Province.

The making of ethnic territories: Governmentality and counter-conducts (2020)
Journal Article
Anthias, P., & Hoffmann, K. (2021). The making of ethnic territories: Governmentality and counter-conducts. Geoforum, 119, 218-226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.06.027

“Ethnic territories” were a central political technology of colonial rule, which also shaped strategies of anti-colonial resistance in diverse contexts. Today, in former colonies, the making of ethnic territories remains a key site of both government... Read More about The making of ethnic territories: Governmentality and counter-conducts.

Rethinking territory and property in indigenous land claims (2019)
Journal Article
Anthias, P. (2021). Rethinking territory and property in indigenous land claims. Geoforum, 119, 268-278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.09.008

The recent proliferation of indigenous land titling processes has generated debate around the possibilities and limits of indigenous engagements with modern forms of cartography, territory and property. This paper makes a novel contribution to these... Read More about Rethinking territory and property in indigenous land claims.

Book Review: Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco (2019)
Journal Article
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

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, Anthi... Read More about Book Review: Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco.

Ambivalent cartographies: exploring the legacies of indigenous land titling through participatory mapping (2019)
Journal Article
Anthias, P. (2019). Ambivalent cartographies: exploring the legacies of indigenous land titling through participatory mapping. Critique of Anthropology, 39(2), 222-242. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275x19842920

This paper reflects on the possibilities and limits of participatory mapping as a tool for interrogating the power–knowledge inequalities that structure indigenous peoples’ engagements with postcolonial state cartography and bureaucracy. I describe m... Read More about Ambivalent cartographies: exploring the legacies of indigenous land titling through participatory mapping.

Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco (2018)
Book
Anthias, P. (2018). Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco. Cornell University Press

Penelope Anthias’s Limits to Decolonization addresses one of the most important issues in contemporary indigenous politics: struggles for territory. Based on the experience of thirty-six Guaraní communities in the Bolivian Chaco, Anthias reveals how... Read More about Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco.

Ch’ixi landscapes: Indigeneity and capitalism in the Bolivian Chaco (2017)
Journal Article
Anthias, P. (2017). Ch’ixi landscapes: Indigeneity and capitalism in the Bolivian Chaco. Geoforum, 82, 268-275. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.09.013

Contemporary debates around the ontological turn have pitted efforts to take indigenous ontologies seriously against demands to make visible the forms of dispossession and environmental suffering that characterize the (post)colonial and capitalist pr... Read More about Ch’ixi landscapes: Indigeneity and capitalism in the Bolivian Chaco.

Territorializing Resource Conflicts in “Post-Neoliberal” Bolivia: Hydrocarbon Development and Indigenous Land Titling in TCO Itika Guasu (2012)
Book Chapter
Anthias, P. (2012). Territorializing Resource Conflicts in “Post-Neoliberal” Bolivia: Hydrocarbon Development and Indigenous Land Titling in TCO Itika Guasu. In H. Haarstad (Ed.), New Political Spaces in Latin American Natural Resource Governance (129-153). (Studies of the Americas). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137073723_7

For lowland indigenous peoples in Bolivia, neoliberalism brought both threats and opportunities. On the one hand, neoliberal economic restructuring intensified the incursions of extractive industries in their lands, producing profound social and envi... Read More about Territorializing Resource Conflicts in “Post-Neoliberal” Bolivia: Hydrocarbon Development and Indigenous Land Titling in TCO Itika Guasu.

Regulación ambiental de los hidrocarburos en el Campo Margarita, Tarija (2012)
Book Chapter
Anthias, P. (2012). Regulación ambiental de los hidrocarburos en el Campo Margarita, Tarija. In P. Peralta, & P. Hollenstein (Eds.), Jamás Tan Cerca Arremetió lo Lejos: Inversiones Extraterritoriales, Crisis Ambiental, y Acción Colectiva en América Latina (51-88). Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar