Abstract
"This research brings together recent scholarly engagement with more-than-human approaches, post-colonial critiques, and urban political ecology. It centers in the ethnographic case of urban development projects in Asunción, that deem that floodplains areas of the city "rightfully" belong to the river and that marginalized communities living there should move elsewhere. It asks: how is the Paraguayan State delineating environmental claims as a way to deny basic services to the urban poor?"