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Afterlives of discovery : speculative geographies in the settler colonial imaginary / heidi andrea restrepo rhodes

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Rhodes, Heidi Andrea
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Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.
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Introduction: Speculative imaginaries in the afterlives of discovery : space-time fabulations, settler frontiers, and the future as territory -- Figuring discovery and dominium : a lingering mythopoetics and property regime -- Writing the earth into the world : speculative geography and the emplacement of futurity -- Settler horizons, colonizing affects : repetitions in the archive and the psychosocial mapping of Colombian national identity -- Rediscovery in the light of the future : territorialization and the demographic catastrophe in Colombian geographic speculation -- Corpus Nullius and the traffick in blood : biocolonialism, reproductive futurity, and the afterlives of discovery -- (Coda). Un futuro sin conquistadores (A future without conquistadors).
Summary
"Taking up key episodes from the history of the Colombian state's formation, Afterlives of Discovery shows how conquest has been more than just a project of territorial expansion; it is also a project of knowledge formation, in which the very idea of the future hinges on the endless extraction of the New World's land, labor, and resources. heidi restrepo rhodes charts how the imaginary of limitlessness imposed on the Americas by European colonization--what she calls speculative geographies--has caused a continuous dispossession of native and Black life in Colombia, a dispossession which became firmly enshrined in Colombia's liberal political doctrine. Combining an intellectual genealogy of conquest drawn from foundational Colombian mapping, surveying, and painting projects with insights gained from fieldwork alongside contemporary Colombian activist groups, rhodes sheds light on the ways that colonial ideas live on in the country's deadly decades-long armed conflict. As peasants, Indigenous, and Black Colombians continue to be massively displaced from their territories in the name of making land into a productive site of extraction from multinational corporations, Afterlives of Discovery offers an alternative vision of a future without conquistadors"--
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9781478031765 (paperback)
147803176X
9781478028543 (hardcover)
1478028548
9781478060741 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Endowment Note
James E. and Gail Scherrer Arnold Libraries Program Endowment
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