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- Title
Driving development in the Amazon: Extending infrastructural citizenship with political ecology in Bolivia.
- Authors
Hope, Jessica
- Abstract
In this paper, I extend the analytical framework of infrastructural citizenship with political ecology and reorientate analysis to rural geographies, extractive infrastructure and indigenous territorial movements. Drawing from recent fieldwork in Bolivia, I argue that an extended conceptual framework of 'infrastructural ecological citizenship' better acknowledges the multiple, changing and contested ways that people and rural places co-exist and how these relationships are being reworked as infrastructure and citizenship are co-constituted. I use this framework to analyse a conflict over road building in an indigenous territory and national park in lowland Bolivia – the Isiboro Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure ; TIPNIS), revealing how the road building project weakened the pre-existing political and material infrastructures that underpinned modes of indigenous territorial citizenship within Bolivia's Plurinational State, as well as foregrounding how transnational extractive capital has shaped negotiations of territorial place-based citizenship in the TIPNIS. In doing so, I contribute to debates on infrastructural citizenship, resource extraction and sustainable development, revealing the ongoing potency of place-based claims on land and related claims for territorial citizenship.
- Subjects
BOLIVIA; CITIZENSHIP; RURAL geography; NATIONAL territory; CONSTRUCTION projects; NATIONAL parks &; reserves; DIASPORA; POLITICAL ecology; TERRITORIAL waters
- Publication
Environment & Planning E: Nature & Space, 2022, Vol 5, Issue 2, p520
- ISSN
2514-8486
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/2514848621989611