CLACS Lecture Series. "Peacock's Feather: Environmental Defense and Second Nature in Late-Liberal Honduras"
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
- Virtual
- Date
- Mar 29, 2021 3:00 pm
- Speaker
- Jon Horne Carter, Department of Anthropology, Appalachian State University
- Cost
- Free, open to the public
- Registration
- Zoom webinar registration link
- Contact
- Kasia Szremski
- szremski@illinois.edu
- Views
- 74
- Originating Calendar
- Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
In this talk I examine how environmental defenders in Honduras resist large-scale energy and extraction projects that are backed by armed state security and military forces. With focus on land occupations that halt these projects, I ask how the material conditions of such resistance efforts impact community relations no less than individual sensibilities toward the material and ecological world. I argue that in Honduras these occupations are often more than situational, and have transformed ideas of citizenship, community, and landscape at a moment when the crises of late-liberalism enclose collective life with the threat of violence, incarceration, and ecocide. What futures become thinkable, then, from within occupations as socio-environmental experimentation?