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    "pk": 42984,
    "title": "‘Pando/Pando’ Across the Americas: Transnational Settler Territorialities and Decolonial Pluralities",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "In Allison Hedge Coke’s 2015 poem “Pando/Pando,” Pando is, in one instance, the site of a 2008 massacre in Bolivia, in which thirteen Evo Morales supporters, many Indigenous, were killed by a militia backed by a US-supported right-wing opposition. While this support clearly illustrates the longstanding exertion of US influence over Latin American countries, it also moves across related sites of settler territorialities to reaffirm in Bolivia the structures of racialized hierarchization and Indigenous elimination as the very grounds of sociopolitical legitimacy and normativity through which the US controls its own “domestic” political space. This essay wants to show how Hedge Coke’s poem engages with this transnational production of settler territorialities while redefining the linkage between the two sites as a decolonial crossing. For, secondly, “Pando” refers to a giant clonal colony in present-day Utah: a forest-sized tree and the “largest living organism on earth.” The poem links this form of Indigenous growth at a site of colonial violence via “Pando” to Morales and the Indigenous political movement he signifies. As it connects these different forms of Indigenous (political) life through their rootedness within their specific lands, the poem works to disrupt the normativity of any territorial settler claim. Beyond the limited settler state conceptions of politics as a centralized project of hierarchization, “Pando/Pando” envisions instead a multiscalar structure of relationships as the normative principle of sociopolitical formation, in which transnational settler colonial connections are redrawn as decolonial pluralities of Indigenous territorialities and dimensions of political life.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "CC BY-NC-ND 4.0",
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        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Settler colonialism"
        },
        {
            "word": "Indigenous territoriality in Bolivia"
        },
        {
            "word": "Allison Hedge Coke"
        },
        {
            "word": "Pando/Pando poem"
        },
        {
            "word": "Transnational American Studies"
        },
        {
            "word": "JTAS"
        }
    ],
    "section": "SPECIAL FORUM: (Im)Mobilities",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6g60x78r",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "René",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Dietrich",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Mainz University",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2020-02-17T20:35:48Z",
    "date_accepted": "2020-02-17T20:35:48Z",
    "date_published": "2020-02-24T09:09:27Z",
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}