The Anthropocene, Extractivist Capitalism and Andean Childhoods

The presentation focuses on children’s active engagement in resisting extractivist logics in the Anthropocene. I ask: How might we address resistance in the context of Andean childhoods and extractive capitalism? How might we meaningfully respond, both conceptually and methodologically, to the growing impact of corporate mining in the global south? How might we respond when the proliferation of extractivist activities and the violent forces of global capital increasingly challenge the voices of local communities? I engage with these questions through two distinct yet related compositions. In the first, I attend to how thinking resistance through/with existing onto-epistemologies and non-Western orientations, specifically decolonial intersections and Latin American articulations of south feminisms, might extend methodological approaches. The second composition zooms in on children’s daily resistance practices, focusing on worlding nonextractive worlds that reconfigure the EuroWestern humanist project underpinning extractive capitalism.