The renewed interest in extractivism in Latin America has opened up an intriguing set of possibilities, moving beyond its initial concern with the political economy of mining, oil, and gas to consider activities like soy agriculture, dams, and oil palm plantations. These issues are often grasped socially in terms of opposition and defense of land and livelihood. The text offers a welcome focus on creation generative of new understandings of capital and state. Gómez-Barris’s compelling text grapples with the destruction and death dealt by extractive industries. The author stitches together efforts by the YASunidos coalition to counter the (neo)extractivism of the Correa government in Ecuador, new-age tourism in Peru, plantation forestry and hydropower development on Mapuche lands, hydropower on the upper Magdalena River in Colombia, and queer, anarcho-feminist critique in Bolivia encountered through protest, film, and text. Together the chapters form a constellation that the author charts as “the extractive zone.” The book’s real achievement is to show that the extractive zone is a space occupied, examined, and reworked by its would-be subjects: indigenous peoples, black communities, queers, women, and children, to say nothing of fish, araucaria trees, birds, rivers, earth-beings, and rocks.

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提取区：社会生态学和非殖民主义观点。玛卡雷娜·戈麦斯-巴里斯着。达勒姆：杜克大学出版社，2017 年。Pp。208. 注释。参考书目。指数。布 84.95 美元。

拉丁美洲对采掘业的新兴趣开辟了一系列有趣的可能性，从最初对采矿、石油和天然气的政治经济的关注转向考虑大豆农业、水坝和油棕种植园等活动。这些问题往往是从反对和捍卫土地和生计的角度来理解的。文本提供了一个受欢迎的关注点，即对资本和国家的新理解的创造。戈麦斯-巴里斯引人入胜的文字与采掘业所造成的破坏和死亡作斗争。作者将 YASunidos 联盟的努力结合在一起，以对抗厄瓜多尔科雷亚政府的（新）榨取主义、秘鲁的新时代旅游业、马普切土地上的人工林和水电开发、哥伦比亚马格达莱纳河上游的水电以及酷儿, 玻利维亚的无政府女权主义批判通过抗议、电影和文字遭遇。这些章节共同构成了一个星座，作者将其绘制为“提取区”。这本书的真正成就是表明开采区是一个被其潜在主体占据、检查和改造的空间：土著人民、黑人社区、酷儿、妇女和儿童，更不用说鱼、南洋杉树、鸟类、河流、地球和岩石。