Landscapes in Dispute, Territorial Futures: Restitution and Reparation in the Face of Enclosure, Industrialization, and Extractivism
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2025
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Landscapes in Dispute, Territorial Futures: Restitution and Reparation in the Face of Enclosure, Industrialization, and Extractivism," at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
We propose a critical discussion of marginalized territories and local populations disrupted by enclosure, industrialization, and extraction of resources (natural, cultural and/or epistemic). Using a perspective that merges historical archaeology, political history, sociocultural anthropology, and critical geography, we consider the historical origins of extractive industries and infrastructures and with their enduring legacies. We ask, how might frameworks of restitution and reparation apply to the territories and communities affected, as well as to the social and natural sciences which have both participated in acts of dispossession, and yet still offer possibilities for collaborative social action? We discuss a range of case studies from the Americas, moving beyond national boundaries and North/South divisions. The session includes global perspectives on imagined futures based on local agendas of Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants, peasant communities, migrant workers, and social organizations. We trace critical histories of contested landscapes to articulate our human futures within wider nonhuman worlds.
Other Keywords
Resources •
Sugar Mill •
Industrialization •
Policy •
stakeholders •
Latin America •
Persistence •
Food Sovereignty •
Extractivism •
Traditional Communities
Geographic Keywords
South America •
ECUADOR •
Cauca, Colombia
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Archaeology, Food Sovereignty, and Networks of Solidarity among Indigenous, Afrodescendens Communities, and Beyond in Brazil and Ecuador (2025)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes in Dispute, Territorial Futures: Restitution and Reparation in the Face of Enclosure, Industrialization, and Extractivism", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper reflects on the interactions and solidarity networks among Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities to maintain self-sustainability and food sovereignty against capitalist and colonialist policies of cultural homogenization. It...
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Extracting Displacement: Material Heritage, Extractivism, Paramilitarism, and La Guardia Indígena in Colombia (2025)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes in Dispute, Territorial Futures: Restitution and Reparation in the Face of Enclosure, Industrialization, and Extractivism", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The legacy of colonial tensions fueled by resource extraction continues to affect numerous aspects of Indigenous-Nation state relationships in Colombia. Franco (2017) points out these tensions concerning dominant academic interpretations of...
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Interpolating Stakeholders: The Industrial Complex of Resource Managment and Enterprise (2025)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes in Dispute, Territorial Futures: Restitution and Reparation in the Face of Enclosure, Industrialization, and Extractivism", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Throughout the 20th century the predominant North American economies have developed bureaucratic regulatory systems for reducing and mitigating impacts to landscapes and the environment. These systems are meant to strike a balance between...
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Unveiling the Colonial Legacy in the Chota Valley, Ecuador: The 20th Century Mascarilla Sugar Mill (2025)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes in Dispute, Territorial Futures: Restitution and Reparation in the Face of Enclosure, Industrialization, and Extractivism", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Sugar mills epitomize a system rooted in oppression through forced labor, revealing dynamics of negotiation and resistance against colonial power (Mintz 1995). Situated in the Ancestral Territory of the Afro-Ecuadorian population of the Chota...