Lavinas Picq, Manuela --- "Situating the Amazon in world politics" [2017] ELECD 1047; in Tan, Celine; Faundez, Julio (eds), "Natural Resources and Sustainable Development" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 165

Book Title: Natural Resources and Sustainable Development

Editor(s): Tan, Celine; Faundez, Julio

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781783478378

Section: Chapter 9

Section Title: Situating the Amazon in world politics

Author(s): Lavinas Picq, Manuela

Number of pages: 21

Abstract/Description:

This chapter proposes Amazonia as a site to think international politics and law. The region is largely invisible in studies of the international yet its experiences are global. The chapter presents international dynamics at play in Amazonia at different historical moments to show how this periphery has contributed to forging international practices and norms. In particular, the Amazon’s absence from the study of international politics speaks about the larger inequality in processes of knowledge production. Serious engagements with Amazonia are one way to invite a plurality of worlds in the production of theories, disrupting global divisions of labor in knowledge production. Key words: Amazonia, coloniality, core-periphery, international relations, knowledge production, state-centrism