Abstract
ABSTRACT In a crises-ridden time where life is under threat due to human activities which exceed planetary boundaries, Indigenous women conceptualize such activities as terricide (Latin terra: ‘the world’ and cadere: ‘to kill’). A case study of the ‘Indigenous Women’s Movement for Buen Vivir’ in Argentina shows that its participants offer a conceptualization of terricide that condemns crimes against humanity and nature alike. They establish an ecocide-genocide-epistemicide nexus. Firstly, terricide frames human activities as destroying nature through ecocide (Greek oikos: ‘home’). Second, terricide results in genocidal phenomena because it harms humans by threatening or destroying their physical and socio-cultural existence. Third, terricide is epistemicide because it destroys the relational knowledge systems that oppose the human and culture/nature divide inherent in ‘modern’ thinking. From a relational perspective, everything that exists, humans, ecosystems and other-than-human subjectivities, form part of a dense web of relations constituting an interdependent, symbiotic community of life.
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