In this conversation, as part of the RCMC Thinking With series, Macarena Gómez-Barris discusses her work notably in The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Duke UP, 2017) and Beyond the Pink Tide (UC Press, 2018).
This conversation is part of the Caring Matters conference, which is part of the international collaborative research project Taking Care – Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as Spaces of Care.
We invite Gómez-Barris to think with us for she insists on theorizing the violence of extractive economies. In our ethnographic museums, we are interested in “mining the museum,” in connecting the objects within our collections to longer histories of resource extraction, of species extinction, of human and cultural degradation. At the same time, thinking the “extractive zone” takes these collections as possible sites for re-imagining other more caring relationships, more careful futures.
Macarena will be in discussion with Ignacio Acosta, Maarten Vanden Eynde and Wayne Modest.
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