Indigeneities in cyberspace and elsewhere: Michelle Vasquez Ruiz, ‘Latin American Indigeneities through Settler Colonialism, Neoliberalism, and Cyberspace’, American Quarterly, 73, 2, 2021, pp. 403-414 | settler colonial studies blog

Indigeneities in cyberspace and elsewhere: Michelle Vasquez Ruiz, ‘Latin American Indigeneities through Settler Colonialism, Neoliberalism, and Cyberspace’, American Quarterly, 73, 2, 2021, pp. 403-414

05Jul21

Excerpt: Colonization is not a monolithic project. It is a project that is inflicted in varying yet consistently insidious ways. The books under review here explore how colonization in Latin America continues to be deployed through racial and gender violence as well as neoliberal policies and economic structures. They pay close attention to how Indigenous populations experience and address these ongoing structures of oppression. M. Bianet Castellanos’s Indigenous Dispossession: Housing and Maya Indebtedness in Mexico examines how the mechanisms of neoliberal housing polices uphold settler colonialism in Mexico. Through ethnographic research Castellanos considers how Maya migrant communities in Cancun are disproportionately affected by predatory housing policies that push them to abandon Indigenous conceptions of communal landownership. Her work recognizes how the process of private homeownership attempts to deracialize and dispossess these Indigenous populations.

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