UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS

I'm excited to be giving two conference presentations over the next month:

• "Geology of Consciousness: Tin and the Unmodernization of Mining in Bolivia." Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Boston, April 6.
• "Extraction after Dispossession: Bolivian mining cooperatives and Indigenous Capitalism?" Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Lima, April 30.

In the first presentation I will be exploring the relationship between material rock formations and what is read as evidence "consciousness" in a Marxist tradition, also pointing to the racism embedded in this term.

A cross-section of the Juan del Valle mountain, in Llallagua. Published in K'epirina, 1987.

The geological formations of Llallagua, as mapped in 1968. The red represents the "stock" of tin.