Protecting Water and Forest Resources against Colonization in the Indigenous Américas

Abstract

This chapter considers recent forms of uprising in the Global South that deal with the legacy of neoliberalism, debt, and economic imperialism that emanate from US economic imperialism and the Washington Consensus. It specifically addresses Chile as a laboratory for neoliberalism and the social and political movements that directly addressed histories of wealth accumulation through extractive and racial capitalism. It also addresses how state violence and an expanding prison and military infrastructure is used to criminalize protest and describe creative strategies of resistance and refusal.