Careful Thinking: Pensar Cuidando—Henvupen Yaconso

Abstract

Three authors and activists write collaboratively about the Patagonian peatbogs. The peatbogs have been degraded and continue to be endangered by numerous practices related to careless thinking. The authors link the threat of exploitation of the Fuegian peatbog to the colonisation of the First Nations’ Selk’nam peoples through state-sanctioned extermination policies. Repudiating the narrative of extinction, the authors compose a multi-vocal score that imagines futures of conservation, self-determination, and care. The practice of thinking and writing together makes visible the epistemological challenges of imagining post-capitalist, conserved futures, and performs the emancipatory practices of re-valuing, reclaiming, and re-visioning local sites.