Don't Touch Tariquía and No Haremos Nada Por Ti, Lo Haremos Contigo explore the resistance of women against discrimination, extractivism, and environmental degradation in Bolivia and Chile. In Latin America, rural women are often at the frontlines of these struggles, because of the gendered impacts of extractivism and intersections of patriarchal, colonial and extractivist violence. 

Don't Touch Tariquía is an inspiring story of rural women's resistance to natural gas extraction in the Tariquía National Reserve of Flora and Fauna in southeast Bolivia. Made in collaboration with the Defence Committee of Chiquiacá, it charts how women used a combination of local political organising, alliance building and direct action to block the entry of oil companies into their communities, sparking a region-wide movement in defence of the national park.

Penelope Anthias is Assistant Professor in Human Geography at Durham University. She has been conducting ethnographic research on Indigenous territorial claims and hydrocarbon conflicts in Bolivia’s Chaco region since 2008. 

No haremos nada por ti, lo haremos contigo is a collaborative production presenting the resistances of the women-led collective Red de Mujeres de El Loa during International Women’s Month. Set in the Chilean area of Calama, a proclaimed territory in sacrifice due to large-scale mining expansion, this captivating film documents women´s transformative experiences of mobilisation, such as embracing self-care, collective growth, and promoting human-nature wellbeing, to resist sacrificial and marginalising portrayals of the women and their territory.

Sophia Valle-Cornibert is a feminist anthropologist, currently doing a PhD at the Centre for Global Development at Northumbria University, Newcastle, supported by Northern Bridge Consortium UK. Her research in the Atacama Desert focuses on women’s social-ecological movements in extractive settings, using participatory action research, decolonial feminist and visual-ethnographic methods. 

The screenings will be followed by a Q&A with the film makers.