Description
The Magdalena River, linking Colombia's Andean interior and Caribbean coast, has long served as a conduit for the expansion of colonial and racial capitalism in the Americas. Now a state-backed megaproject seeks to transform the waterway into a logistics corridor. In Artery, Austin Zeiderman relates the Magdalena's fraught past and uncertain future to global entanglements of race, nature, and capital. Refusing disciplinary parochialism, Zeiderman engages with debates across the social sciences and humanities to examine how racial orders shape ecologies and infrastructures, thereby upholding exploitative relations not only among human populations, but also between people and the planet. Alert to ethnographic specificity and broad relevance, Zeiderman positions the Magdalena River within regimes of extractivism and inequality that continue to afflict the modern world.
About the Author
Austin Zeiderman is Associate Professor of Geography at the London School of Economics and author of Endangered City: The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogota, also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews
"Through lucid ethnography along Colombia's Magdalena River, Austin Zeiderman shows how attempts to forge a fluvial 'logistics corridor' revive and sustain racial and spatial difference. With deep sensitivity to the human and nonhuman life that traverses these terraqueous environs, Zeiderman offers a deft critique of the fetishisms of logistics and of governable supply chains and their smooth flow, revealing logistics to be aleatory and extremely lucrative, unpredictable and deeply contradictory." -- Sharad Chari, author of * Apartheid Remains *
"Going upstream Colombia's Magdalena River has occasioned many great stories, and Austin Zeiderman's is an inordinately skilled wayfinding into the conjoined circulations of race and nature on a river constantly remade and remaking the life worlds engaged with it, now in concert with new logistical imaginaries. Yet the materialization of these imaginaries results in uncertain dispositions amid the terraqueous cadences of exploitation and inventiveness, local vernaculars and imported technicities, capture and autonomy, whose unpredictable proportions require skilled navigation from us all." -- AbdouMaliq Simone, author of * The Surrounds: Urban Life within and beyond Capture *
"Through the story of a river, multiple social, geopolitical, and environmental scales of racialization, gendering, and class formation are revealed. Artery is replete with the rich particularities of place, personhood, and intricate networks of human and other-than-human relations assembled through regional association and driven apart by spatial hierarchies. Simultaneously attentive to the scars of colonization and the often subtle and occasionally stark changes brought about by transformations in conditions of labor and increasing global connectivity, the narrative is equally concerned with struggles for liberation and the possibilities of living otherwise. Astute and compelling." -- Hazel V. Carby, author of * Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands *
Book Information
ISBN 9781478028185
Author Austin Zeiderman
Format Hardback
Page Count 272
Imprint Duke University Press
Publisher Duke University Press
Weight(grams) 572g
About the Author
Austin Zeiderman is Associate Professor of Geography at the London School of Economics and author of Endangered City: The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogota, also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews
"Through lucid ethnography along Colombia's Magdalena River, Austin Zeiderman shows how attempts to forge a fluvial 'logistics corridor' revive and sustain racial and spatial difference. With deep sensitivity to the human and nonhuman life that traverses these terraqueous environs, Zeiderman offers a deft critique of the fetishisms of logistics and of governable supply chains and their smooth flow, revealing logistics to be aleatory and extremely lucrative, unpredictable and deeply contradictory." -- Sharad Chari, author of * Apartheid Remains *
"Going upstream Colombia's Magdalena River has occasioned many great stories, and Austin Zeiderman's is an inordinately skilled wayfinding into the conjoined circulations of race and nature on a river constantly remade and remaking the life worlds engaged with it, now in concert with new logistical imaginaries. Yet the materialization of these imaginaries results in uncertain dispositions amid the terraqueous cadences of exploitation and inventiveness, local vernaculars and imported technicities, capture and autonomy, whose unpredictable proportions require skilled navigation from us all." -- AbdouMaliq Simone, author of * The Surrounds: Urban Life within and beyond Capture *
"Through the story of a river, multiple social, geopolitical, and environmental scales of racialization, gendering, and class formation are revealed. Artery is replete with the rich particularities of place, personhood, and intricate networks of human and other-than-human relations assembled through regional association and driven apart by spatial hierarchies. Simultaneously attentive to the scars of colonization and the often subtle and occasionally stark changes brought about by transformations in conditions of labor and increasing global connectivity, the narrative is equally concerned with struggles for liberation and the possibilities of living otherwise. Astute and compelling." -- Hazel V. Carby, author of * Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands *
Book Information
ISBN 9781478028185
Author Austin Zeiderman
Format Hardback
Page Count 272
Imprint Duke University Press
Publisher Duke University Press
Weight(grams) 572g
