ABSTRACT
Drawing on their experiences in struggles against extractive projects, Latin American women’s movements increasingly question the hegemony of the extractive logic based on the exploitation and exhaustion of all living beings. Concepts such as “body-territory-land” or “re-existence” are put forward to grasp how resistance is connected to the situated and corporeal knowledges of the places where life is reproduced. Based on long-standing research relations with social movements and scholar activists in Peru and beyond, I discuss how women’s worlding practices in anti-extractive struggles relate to body, territory, and the reproduction of life in ways that allow for building alliances between heterogeneous movements. I reflect on how the strategic misunderstandings of different lifeworlds and territorial affiliations on which these alliances for the defense of life are built reproduce power relations between different worlds on the one hand but open potential avenues for pluriversal solidarities on the other.
