Contesting the Anthropocene Latin American Perspectives beyond Coloniality and Capitalism

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

1. Contesting the Anthropocene: Latin American Perspectives Beyond Coloniality and Capitalism 

Olaf Kaltmeier, Luisa Raquel Ellermeier, Eric Rummelhoff, Omar Sierra Cháves, Ann-Kathrin Volmer

2. The Anthropocene From Latin America: New Geological Era or Sociohistorical Change? History, Issues, Controversies, and Possible Futures 

Anthony Goebel-McDermott and Ronny J. Viales-Hurtado

3. The Conquistal Mineralocene: Potosí, the Earth Eaters, and the World’s Machination 

Horacio Machado Aráoz

4. Livestock, Commodity Frontier, and the Plantationocene in Latin America and the Caribbean 

Reinaldo Funes Monzote

5. Old and New Sacrifice Zones in Latin America 

Sabrina Fernandes

6. Be Care(full)!: The Anthropocene: On the Andean Exaltation of Life and Modern Necropolitics 

Olaf Kaltmeier

7. Aesthetics of Care and Urbanocene 

María Grace Salamanca

8. Biocentrism in the Anthropocene: Alternatives From Mexico 

Yolanda Cristina Massieu Trigo

9. Infrastructure and Agency in the Anthropocene: Posthumanist Thoughts 

Frederik Schulze

10. Science and Technology for Harvesting Solar Energy: South America and Its Laboratory of Sustainability (1872–1948) 

Nelson Arellano-Escudero

11. After Pristine Nature: Exploring Approaches to the Urban in South America in the Anthropocene 

Danielle Heberle Viegas, Freg Stokes, Eduardo Relly, and Patrick Roberts

12. The Anthropocene Settles in the Urban: The Urban Anthropocene in the Global South 

Abraham Paulsen and Cristián Henríquez

13. Green Urbanocene and Parks: Urban Forests and Water Springs as Narratives to Read the Mexican City Guadalajara 

Lourdes Sofia Mendoza Bohne

Biography

Olaf Kaltmeier, PhD, is Professor and Chair of Ibero-American History at Bielefeld University, Director of the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CALAS) and Founding Director of the Center for Inter American Studies (CIAS). He conducts the international collaborative research project "Turning Land into Capital," funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung.

Luisa Raquel Ellermeier is a researcher at the Center for InterAmerican Studies Studies (CIAS) and an editor at Bielefeld University, Germany. Her work combines research, teaching, and editorial expertise, with an interdisciplinary focus on film representations of gender, indigenous resistance, human–animal relations, alterity, and subalternity in the inter-American context.

Eric Rummelhoff earned his master’s in InterAmerican studies at Bielefeld University. Since then, his work has focused on translating and editing the results of work done at the Merian Sibylla Maria Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS), particularly the handbook series The Anthropocene as a Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America.

Omar Sierra Cháves is a PhD candidate in Latin American History (Bielefeld University/University of the Basque Country). His research examines land appropriations, cacao, and coloniality in nineteenth-century Venezuela and is part of the project "Turning Land into Capital." His professional experience includes editorial work on the Handbook The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America at CALAS.

Ann-Kathrin Volmer, PhD, is a guest researcher in the Department for Geography at the University of Bonn. Her research is centered on the subjects of water governance and socio-ecological conflicts in Colombia and Ecuador. She has served as the co-manager of the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico.