Presentation short abstract

Racial capitalism creates not only sacrifice zones, but also "sacrificable" bodies. Situated within FPE, this paper examines how violence is inscribed in spaces and bodies, centering the experience of Quilombolan women of Ilha de Maré/Brazil, resisting the intoxication of their land and bodies.

Presentation long abstract

Extractive violence is central to the capitalist system in the Anthropocene and creates sacrifice zones, which experience environmental conflicts and social inequalities along lines of race, class, and gender. Understanding extractive political economies as multiscalar, this paper focuses on glocal entanglements by asking how extractive violence manifests in spaces and is embedded in global structures, leading to systematic constructions of vulnerable bodies to extractive violence. This paper draws attention to spatial relations of power and how socio-economic inequalities are inscribed in land and bodies. It argues that extractive violence not only constructs spatial sacrifice zones, but also 'sacrificable’ bodies. Taking everyday experiences of affected communities as epistemological points of departure and their knowledge claims seriously, this paper asks how extractive violence is inscribed in spaces and bodies. Utilizing the concept of sacrifice zones, this paper examines the case of the artisanal fisherwomen of the Quilombo of Ilha de Maré, Brazil, and their continuous resistance against a petroleum supply chain and the intoxication of their land and water. Through an ethnographic approach, this paper reveals how communities in a postcolonial setting resist destruction in their daily lives and perceive it as a form of extractive violence. Drawing on Racial Capitalocene (Vergès) and Decolonial Ecology (Ferdinand 2021), this paper links racialization, colonial continuities, and environmental entanglements. Situated in Latin American Feminist Political Ecology, it engages debates on situated knowledges and (in)visibility, making a concerted effort to center the experiences of those most affected by and resisting environmental destruction.