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    Navigating Shifting Waters: Subjectivity, Oil Extraction, and Urarina Territorial Strategies in the Peruvian Amazon
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2023-11-01)
    This paper examines the relationships between extractive infrastructure, changing territorial strategies, and contemporary processes of subject formation among the Urarina, an indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon. We first introduce the uneven and combined character of oil extraction in the Loreto region in north-eastern Peru, and how its racialised spatial contradictions are expressed in the ethnopolitical field that gives political form to regional extractive operations. The paper goes on to analyse the case of the Urarina people in the Chambira river basin, their particular place in the geography of extraction, and the case of the community of Nueva Union. We examine contemporary processes of subject formation in the community, which combine radical transformations in the role of money, territorial strategies, use and valuation of the environment, and changes in political structure, in non-linear ways. The paper closes by examining how the case of the community of Nueva Union sheds light on broader dynamics of subject formation, localised relations to the environment, and extraction as they play out in contemporary indigenous Amazonia.
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    Illuminating small-scale fishers' adaptation strategies to COVID-19: Navigating the challenges in Peruvian coastal communities
    (Elsevier BV, 2026-08-01)
    Peru experienced the highest excess number of deaths relating to COVID-19 of anywhere in the world. Despite the implementation of national and international regulations to control the advance of the pandemic, fishers’ settlements developed their own adaptation strategies to resist the complex economic impacts of such measures. This paper examines the adaptation strategies employed by twelve fishing communities in northern Peru. Specifically, it explores the potential of Community Capitals Framework for interpreting the adaptation strategies developed to responded to the pandemic’s constraints. Data was collected from fishers, fish farmers, local stakeholders and female household members. Representing a methodological innovation under pandemic restrictions, the latter also played a key role in data validation. We identified four groups of thematic strategies: improvement of financial and market access at the household level, implementation of formal rules based on health concerns, collective construction of informal rules to withstand health and economic impacts in the settlements and bottom-up coping strategies at the household level. Findings suggest that a diverse set of capitals were used in underpinning adaptive strategies. Human, built and social capitals were key to supporting livelihoods at the household level. At the collective level, Social, human, political and financial capitals were used to support local governance structures. We conclude that faced with unprecedented challenges, fishers’ and fish farmers and their families developed adaptive strategies that combined multiple forms of local effort, reflected at the household and collective levels, which in turn, raise questions about the lack of an efficient governmental support in times of crisis.