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In Paraguay's Chaco region, cattle ranching drives some of the world's fastest deforestation and most extreme inequality in land tenure, with grave impacts on Indigenous well-being. Disrupting the Patron traces Enxet and Sanapana struggles to reclaim their ancestral lands from the cattle ranches where they labored as peons-a decades-long resistance that led to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and back to the frontlines of Paraguay's ranching frontier. The Indigenous communities at the heart of this story employ a dialectics of disruption by working with and against the law to unsettle enduring racial geographies and rebuild territorial relations, albeit with uncertain outcomes. Joel E. Correia shows that Enxet and Sanapana peoples enact environmental justice otherwise: moving beyond juridical solutions to harm by maintaining collective lifeways and resistance amid radical social-ecological change. Correia's ethnography advances debates about environmental racism, ethics of engaged research, and Indigenous resurgence on Latin America's settler frontiers.

About the Author
Joel E. Correia is Assistant Professor in the Human Dimensions of Natural Resources Department at Colorado State University.

Reviews
"Disrupting the Patron is a superb ethnography of Indigenous environmental justice as well as a nuanced account of the possibilities and challenges of land back. It deserves to be widely read by scholars and practitioners of all stripes." * Antipode *
"Correia constructs a provocative ethnography which centers on the land struggles of the Enxet and Sanapana people and offers a timely reminder of the racialized regimes and unequal geographies that mark the landscape of a rapidly changing economic frontier in Latin America." * NACLA *
"Joel Correia's timely Disrupting the Patron has arrived at a moment of unprecedented national investment in environmental justice within the United States, and as Indigenous-led calls for the return of stolen land across North America continue to grow. Correia's in-depth ethnographic study of the Indigenous Paraguayan communities of Enxet and Sanapana's decades-long fight for return of their ancestral lands adds critical insight to this movement, pushing the limits of how environmental justice is often defined and pursued within the states while still honoring its origin." * Sierra *



Book Information
ISBN 9780520393103
Author Joel E. Correia
Format Paperback
Page Count 236
Imprint University of California Press
Publisher University of California Press
Weight(grams) 408g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm