ABSTRACT
Deforestation is a pivotal issue of the climate crisis, with Indigenous peoples at the forefront of the climate justice movement.6 Kyle White offers three ways to consider the climate predicament upon localized territories of struggle that have relevance to the author's discussion of the occupied forest. Since the 1990s, and with renewed intensification over the past ten years, the Americas has experienced a new period of what Eduardo Galeano first called the Open Veins of Latin America. The ruins in the wake of dam flooding, the recent and ongoing fires burning in the Amazon, and the loss, theft, and continual genocide through slow and immediate violence are all largely hidden from the domain of consumers in urban spaces. The issue of obliterating Indigenous knowledge production is a reiterative form of epistemological violence that has material effects. Complex representations that illuminate forms of relationality and social ontologies are critical in this regard.
