Cosmopraxis and Contextualising Among the Contemporary Aymara

Cosmopraxis: Relational methods for a pluriversal IR

“…It refers to the experience of moving about multiple worlds as practiced by people (including eventually, other-than-humans) and entails relational practices of co-participation in the cosmos. 72 The term has been used by Koen De Munter and Nicole Note and Denise Arnold 73 to refer to worldings of the Aymara communities in the Andes who share a relational cosmology. But if the term responds to a specific origin the idea behind cosmopraxis is present in relational cosmologies known as as 'cosmic living/experience' (cosmovivencia or cosmoexperience), 74 which according to Trownsell 'encompasses all possible ways of engaging in and interacting with existence.…”

A Landscape of Water and Waste: Heritage Legacies and Environmental Change in the Mesabi Iron Range

“…Mercer, the plaintiffs argued that the reorganization of the city of Hibbing to include the addition of Alice was conducted in private between city officials and Oliver Iron, and without a vote by the townspeople. 36 The plaintiffs argued that the move to Alice would harm the community, and that the relocation was designed to give city officials, such as Mayor Power, and the mining and railway companies total ownership over the new commercial and retail districts. City officials countered that relocating the city to Alice offered a permanent location for Hibbing to continue to develop, and because it was located far from the ore body, the town need not fear future displacement.…”

“…As John Thistle and Nancy Langston argue, the environmental consequence of taconite mining had effects that were widespread rather than localized and required legal intervention in order to thwart these burgeoning impacts. 36 My examination of the migration of tailings at Swan Lake in Chapter 5 adds to the story of waste escaping the tailings controls engineered by Minnesota mining companies and highlights the dynamic nature of the environment within the envirotechnical system, which highlights the agency of nature within these mining systems. The discourses through which we frame certain concepts, issues or debates have an affect in so far as they constitute, construct, mediate and regulate understanding and debate.…”

“…In his August 1913 affidavit, Sellwood denied all charges made by Munter and downplayed any environmental impacts caused by the Hawkins concentrator as trivialities that came with the tremendous economic benefits that his company and ore processing brought to the area and broader nation. But he implicitly recognized the harm done when he added that with the benefits of industrial prosperity came the inevitable consequences of environmental pollution 36. If the residents of Nashwauk and the citizens of the United States wanted good jobs and modern amenities, environmental quality had to suffer.…”