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Uncommoning Nature
Marisol de la Cadena
On June 5, 2009, at dawn, a violent confrontation took place between police forces and a large group of Peruvian citizens declaring themselves as belonging to the Awajun-Wampis indigenous groups. The police’s objective was to break up a blockade at a major highway near the town of Bagua in the Amazonian lowlands of northern Peru. The Awajun-Wampis had taken control of the highway at a place called La Curva del Diablo (Devil’s Curve) as part of a general strike that started on April 9 that…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
Category
Indigenous Issues & Indigeneity, Land & territory, Nature & Ecology
Subjects
Anthropocene, Human - Nonhuman Relations, Extractivism