Artery: Racial Ecologies on Colombia's Magdalena River

by Austin Zeiderman

The Magdalena River, linking Colombia's Andean interior and Caribbean coast, has long served as a conduit for the expansion of colonial and racial capitalism in the Americas. Now a state-backed megaproject seeks to transform the waterway into a logistics corridor. In Artery, Austin Zeiderman relates the Magdalena's fraught past and uncertain future to global entanglements of race, nature, and capital. Refusing disciplinary parochialism, Zeiderman...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478028181
• ISBN13: 9781478028185
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.