Contesting the Climate Unthinkable

List of Figures

Foreword: Latin America and the “Unthinkable”

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Contesting the Climate Unthinkable; Latin America and the Warming World
Gianfranco Selgas, Azucena Castro, and Ken Benson

Part 1. Reimagining the Land: Amerindian Aesthetics and Alternative Ecologies for a Deranged World

1. Dying Well: Micropolitics of Life Against Terricidio in Mapuche Poetics
Montserrat Madariaga-Caro

2. The Art of an Ecological Constitution: Beyond Derangement in Chile
Paul R. Merchant

3. Entangled Ruins: Nature and Postcatastrophic Landscapes in Hiram Bingham’s Inca Land and José de la Riva-Agüero’s Paisajes peruanos
Andrés Ernesto Obando

Part 2. The Political Ecology of Artistic Forms: Culture, Extractivism, and Environmental Imagination

4. What Is the Conflict About? Ecology, Ontology, and Decoloniality in Joseph Zárate’s Guerras del Interior
José Carlos Díaz Zanelli

5. Archives of the Planetary Mine: Art, Political Ecology, and Media Geology in Chile and Venezuela
Gianfranco Selgas

6. Fiction Writing and Environmental Conservation in Latin America: The Cases of João Guimarães Rosa and Alejo Carpentier
Victoria Saramago

Part 3. Disrupting the Sensible Order in Landscapes of Contamination, Toxicity, and Wildfires

7. Embodying Anthropocene Awareness in ecogótico rioplatense
Allison Mackey

8. Haunting Trees in the Global South: Image and Life in the Rubble of Climate Change
Roberto Robalinho

9. Toxic Transits: Ghostly Double Gazes, Slow Violence, and North-South Ecologies of Inequalities in the Films Sealed Cargo (Bolivia) and Arica (Chile)
Azucena Castro

Part 4. Contesting Environmental Catastrophism: Queer Bodies, Afro-Indigenous Epistemologies, and the Crisis of Futurity

10. Culture, Inequality, and Queer Ecology in Rita Indiana’s La Mucama de Omicunlé
Emily Baker

11. Toward a Cosmopolitics of the Image: Notes for a Possible Ecology of Cinematic Practices
Sebastian Wiedemann

12. Brazilian Afrofuturism, Climate Apocalypse, and Heuristic Function
Patrick Brock

Part 5. Ethnographic and Poetic Interventions

13. Choike Pürrun: The Mapuche People’s Sacred Dance
Jasmin Belmar Shagulian

14. The Paths Not Seen: How I Structured My Representation of Nature
Igor Barreto

List of Contributors

Index