Gendered geographies of elimination: Decolonial feminist geographies in Latin American settler contexts

S Zaragocin - Antipode, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Antipode, 2019Wiley Online Library
Gendered geographies of elimination further settler colonialism's influence on conceptual
discussions in human geography on contemporary forms of the place‐based death of
indigenous peoples. Through work stemming from scholarship on the gendering of settler
colonialism, this paper adds to narratives on place annihilation and dispossession of
indigenous territory tied to the slow death of racialised, gendered and sexualised
populations. Building on incipient reflections in geography with settler colonialism, I explore …
Abstract
Gendered geographies of elimination further settler colonialism's influence on conceptual discussions in human geography on contemporary forms of the place‐based death of indigenous peoples. Through work stemming from scholarship on the gendering of settler colonialism, this paper adds to narratives on place annihilation and dispossession of indigenous territory tied to the slow death of racialised, gendered and sexualised populations. Building on incipient reflections in geography with settler colonialism, I explore the geographic implications from the perspective of Epera women, indigenous women belonging to a trinational ethnicity experiencing elimination along the Ecuador–Colombia borderland from the perspective of decolonial feminist geography frameworks. I claim that attrition implied in settler colonialism's logic of elimination is a territorial project demonstrated in place‐based elimination and gendered embodied elimination.
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