BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6489-4006f9204c6bf93cd9b9d6a4a033909a@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260813T235646Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190321T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190321T193000 SUMMARY:Christopher Loperena, “The Racial Logics of Extraction” DESCRIPTION:\nThrough an ethnographic engagement with the politics of fr ontier making in Honduras\, I interrogate the racial logics of the extra ctivist development agenda that cohered in the wake of the 2009 coup. Th is \;developmental mandate is crucially bound up with dominant racio -spatial epistemologies\, which render indigenous and black peoples as b arriers to national progress. \;The suspension of democratic norms f ollowing the coup was used to usher in the \;sistema de la muerte&nb sp\;(system of death) that has not only claimed the lives of dozens of l and and environmental activists but also resulted in the concession of o ver 30% of Honduran territory to foreign and national investors. \;I demonstrate the ways in which the expansion of extractive capitalism is contingent on a settler colonial logic of elimination\, which positions blackness outside the spatial boundaries of the state&rsquo\;s sovereig n political territory \;in order to \;hasten processes of accumu lation for the national elite.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.ps u.edu/event/christopher_loperena_the_racial_logics_of_extraction/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Through an ethn ographic engagement with the politics of frontier making in Honduras, I interrogate the racial logics of the extractivist development agenda tha t cohered in the wake of the 2009 coup. This developmental mandate is crucially bound up with dominant racio-spatial epistemologies, which render indigenous and black peoples as barriers to national progress.&nb sp;The suspension of democratic norms following the coup was used to ush er in the sistema de la muerte (system of death) that has not only claimed the lives of dozens of land and environmental activists but also resulted in the concession of over 30% of Honduran territory to fo reign and national investors. I demonstrate the ways in which the e xpansion of extractive capitalism is contingent on a settler colonial lo gic of elimination, which positions blackness outside the spatial bounda ries of the state’s sovereign political territory in order to  hasten processes of accumulation for the national elite.

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