This presentation charts the experiences of Indigenous women and girls from the Santa Ana de Museruna community in the Bolivian Amazon, who have been traversed by the construction of a highway built by a Chinese company. Drawing on feminist body-mapping, I analyze three cuerpo-territorio (body-territory) maps drawn by the girls, which depict the transformations brought about by infrastructural development in their territory. Through this community-based approach, and rooted in Indigenous theorizations of territoriality, this case study explores the long-neglected intersection of bodies and land, offering fertile insights for reimagining geographical notions, ecologies of affect, and more-than-human worlds grounded Latin American thought and practice."

Presenter: 

Nohely Guzmán
Ph.D. candidate, Department of Geography, UCLA

Sponsor(s): Latin American Institute