The Design of Forest Politics: Laboring and Defending the Forest-Web Like Weaving Spiders

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Andrea Sempértegui, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Politics and a Paul Garrett Fellow at Whitman College. She teaches and writes on Indigenous politics, environmental and feminist movements, conflicts over territory and natural resource extraction, and decolonial thought in Latin America. Her publications in English and Spanish include peer-reviewed articles for Politics and Gender (2019), Journal of International Women's Studies (2020), Antropologías del Sur (2022), Society & Natural Resources (2023), and Studies in Social Justice (2023). She has written essays and book reviews for The New York Review of Books, Alternautas, Verso and NACLA. She is currently working on her book, Today, I Dreamt What Will Happen Tomorrow: Indigenous Women, Extractive Capital, and Forest Politics in Ecuador, with the University of Florida Press.

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