Andean-Amazonian Cosmopolitics: Ontologies and Buen Vivir in Hija de la laguna (2015) and When Two Worlds Collide (2016)
Abstract
Drawing on the ontological turn made by political ecology as a theoretical framework, this article analyzes the environmentalist documentaries Hija de la laguna (Cabellos 2015) and When Two Worlds Collide (Orzel and Brandenburg 2016) to offer a thorough political understanding of the conflicts known as Conga and Baguazo in the Peruvian Andes and Amazon. By using environmentalist documentaries as discursive platforms for indigenous activists Nélida Ayay Chilón and Alberto Pizango, this work points out that the confrontations portrayed by these documentaries occur in the realm of cosmopolitics since the divergence is ontologically and not culturally rooted. Moreover, Buen Vivir is posited as the purpose of the indigenous cosmopolitics embodied by the activists in these two conflicts.
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