Gastón R. Gordillo

Title

Gastón R. Gordillo

Birth Date

1966

Birthplace

Buenos Aires

Primary Sources

Gordillo, G. (2023). Hostile terrain: On the Spatial and Affective Conditions for Revolution. Territory, Politics, Governance, 13(6), 812–827. https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2023.2172450

Gordillo, G. (2021). The power of terrain: The affective materiality of planet Earth in the age of revolution. Dialogues in Human Geography, 11(2), 190-194. https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206211001023 

Gordillo, G. (2020). Gravity: On the Primacy of Terrain. In F. Billé (Ed.), Voluminous States: Sovereignty, Materiality, and the Territorial Imagination (pp. 159-172). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478012061-013

Gordillo, G. (2019). The Metropolis: The Infrastructure of the Anthropocene. In K. Hetherington (Ed.), Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene (pp. 66-94). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478002567-005

Gordillo, G. (2016) The Savage Outside of White Argentina. In P, Alberto & E, Elena (Eds.), Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina (pp. 241-267). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316228050.011

Gordillo, G. (2015). Empire on Trial: The Forensic Appearance of Truth. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 33(2), 382–388. https://doi.org/10.1068/d3302rev

Gordillo, G. R. (2014). Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822376903

Gordillo, G. R. (2004). Landscapes of Devils: Tensions of Place and Memory in the Argentinean Chaco. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822386025

Secondary Sources

Barbero, M. V. (2023). Interrogating the constitutive silences of whiteness: racial categorizations and spatial racialization in Argentina. Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 18(1), 100–121. https://doi.org/10.1080/17442222.2022.2046650

Marini, D. A. (2023). White spatial politics in mainstream agroecology activism in Argentina. Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 18(2), 282–295. https://doi.org/10.1080/17442222.2022.2099168

Armiero, M., Turhan, E., & De Rosa, S. P. (2023). Urban Movements and Climate Change: Loss, Damage and Radical Adaptation. Amsterdam University Press.

Extra Resources

Gastón Gordillo: Place, Territory, Terrain: A Spatial Triad for the Climate Crisis. (2023, December 7). SFB 1265 Re-Figuration von Räumen. YouTube. Accessed October 15, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wztmO0_F7rk 

Elden, S. (2014, April 18). On the Afterlife of Destruction: Gastón Gordillo, interviewed by Stuart Elden. Society & Space. Accessed October 15, 2025. https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/on-the-afterlife-of-destruction

The University of British Columbia. (n.d.). Gastón Gordillo. Accessed October 15, 2025. https://anth.ubc.ca/profile/gaston-gordillo/ 

 

Citation

“Gastón R. Gordillo,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed December 6, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/765.

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