Decolonial Conversations in Andean Patagonia

Drawing on four years living in the Mapuche territories of Andean Patagonia, Agustina Solera shows how decolonial and Indigenous approaches to development interact with one another in practice in this open access book. Although decoloniality is a concept that has gained widespread usage in academic circles in the Global North, it is often employed without full engagement with the originating debates that questioned the stubborn persistence of Eurocentric colonial dynamics even in the postcolonial era. In this book, Solera summarizes those debates; shows how they speak to Indigenous, Andean-Patagonian knowledges and approaches to colonialism and development; and shows how Andean-Patagonian modes of "dwelling in the territory otherwise" themselves make important political gestures in ways under-recognized in contemporary decolonial thought. Ultimately, this leads to a uniquely situated exploration of the fundamental question that lies at the heart of any conversation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous approaches: How do you think from another place? The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.