Irune Gabiola, "Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America: A Tribute to Berta Cáceres" (Peter Lang, 2020)

May 18, 2022

Irune Gabiola explores affect, ecofeminism, and intersectional struggles in Latin America, focusing on COPINH's resistance in Honduras. The podcast discusses the impact of the Makila industry, ecofeminism in indigenous communities, collective care, Utopia as a community space, resilience in Honduras, and themes of care and self-care in Latin America and Spain.

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Intro

00:00 • 2min

Exploring the Impact of the Makila Industry and Berta Cáceres' Activism in Latin America

02:09 • 25min

Ecofeminism, Indigenous Communities, and Collective Care in Latin America

27:00 • 17min

Exploring the Reception and Transnational Impact of Publications on Indigenous Communities and Social Organizations

44:22 • 4min

Exploring Utopia, Hope, and Affective Practices in Community Building

48:14 • 3min

Resilience and Hope in Honduras

51:44 • 6min

Exploring Themes of Care, Self-Care, and Collective Care in Latin America and Spain

57:37 • 4min

In Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America: A Tribute to Berta Cáceres (Peter Lang, 2020), Irune del Rio Gabiola examines the power of affect in structuring decolonizing modes of resistance performed by social movements such as COPINH (Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras). Despite a harsh legacy of colonialism, indigenous communities continue suffering from territorial displacements, dispossession, and human rights abuses due to extractivist projects that are violently destroying their land and, therefore, the environment. In particular, the Lenca communities in Honduras have been negatively affected by Western ideas of progress and development that have historically eliminated ancestral knowledges and indigenous ecological cosmologies while reinforcing Eurocentrism. Nevertheless, by reflecting on and articulating strategies for resisting neoliberalism, COPINH and its cofounder Berta Cáceres' commitment to environmental activism, ecofeminism, and intersectional struggles has contributed affectively and effectively to the production of democratic encounters in pursuit of social justice. In homage to Berta, who was brutally assassinated for her activism in 2016, this book takes the reader on an affective journey departing from the violent affects experienced by the Lencas due to colonial disruption, contemporary industrialization, and criminalization, towards COPINH's political and social intervention fueled by outrage, resistance, transnational solidarity, care, mourning, and hope. In this way, subaltern actors nurture the power to--in line with Brian Massumi's interpretation of affect--transform necropolitics into natality with the aim of creating a fairer and better world

The host, Elize Mazadiego, is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at the University of Amsterdam and author of Dematerialization and the Social Materiality of Art: Experimental Forms in Argentina, 1955-1968 (Brill, 2021). She works on Modern and Contemporary art, with a specialization in Latin American art history.

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