Women's* Bodies Resisting Extractivism and Environmental Destruction: Feminist Ecocritical Perspectives about Latin American Artists

Authors

  • Clara Seitter Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2025.16.1.5474

Keywords:

extractivism, ecofeminism, artistic resistance, body-territory

Abstract

While our world is heading towards a terrible climate crisis that is already affecting countless animals, plants and people—especially women*—on a daily basis, the destructive spiral of our global economic system persists. A case in this point is the increasing number of extractivist projects in Latin America. At the same time, resistance to land expropriation, asymmetrical power relations, femicides and environmental pollution is omnipresent and is also thematised in particular through artistic interventions in public spaces. This article takes up three such art interventions by analysing the artworks of two Latin American artists and a group of artists from Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. It analyses the extent to which the various artworks—installation art, performance art, street art—deal with themes such as female* corporeality, environmental destruction and extractivism, as well as taking an ecocritical-feminist look at the artworks and the interweaving of bodies and territories.

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Author Biography

Clara Seitter, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

  Clara Seitter holds degrees in social sciences, Hispanic studies and social and cultural anthropology from the University of Marburg and the University of Halle-Wittenberg. During her studies she focused on feminism and ecofeminism, artivism, cultural exchange and environmental justice and sustainability. She is currently working as a project manager and coordinator of a multi-generation house in Halle (Saale) with the aim of creating a sustainable and practice-oriented network in a marginalised neighbourhood, offering low-cost courses and cultural and educational events.

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Published

2025-04-30

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2025): Anthropocene Sublimes

Section

Articles: General Section

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