Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador
In 2007, the left came to power in Ecuador. In the years that followed, the "twenty-first-century socialist" government and a coalition of grassroots activists came to blows over the extraction of natural resources. Each side declared the other a perversion of leftism and the principles of socio-economic equality, popular empowerment, and anti-imperialism. In Resource Radicals, Thea Riofrancos unpacks the conflict between these two leftisms: on the one hand, the administration's resource nation…
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- Full title :Resource Radicals : From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador / Thea Riofrancos.
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In 2007, the left came to power in Ecuador. In the years that followed, the "twenty-first-century socialist" government and a coalition of grassroots activists came to blows over the extraction of natural resources. Each side declared the other a perversion of leftism and the principles of socio-economic equality, popular empowerment, and anti-imperialism. In Resource Radicals, Thea Riofrancos unpacks the conflict between these two leftisms: on the one hand, the administration's resource nationalism and focus on economic development; and on the other, the anti-extractivism of grassroots activists who condemned the disregard for nature and indigenous communities. In this archival and ethnographic study, Riofrancos expands the study of resource politics by decentering state resource policy and locating it in a field of political struggle populated by actors with conflicting visions of resource extraction. She demonstrates how Ecuador's commodity-dependent economy and history of indigenous uprisings offer a unique opportunity to understand development, democracy, and the ecological foundations of global capitalism.
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- Publication Date:©2020
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- Publisher(s):Duke University Press
- Place of Publication:Durham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2020
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (264 p.).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781478012122, 1478012129
- DOI:10.1515/9781478012122
- oclc:on1198930692
- LC Classification:HD9506.E22
- Dewey Decimal:333.809866
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