Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Resource Radicalisms -- 1 From Neoliberalismo to Extractivismo: The Dialectic of Governance and Critique -- 2 Extractivismo as Grand Narrative of Resistance -- 3 Consulta Previa: The Political Life of a Constitutional R…
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 pr…
"RESOURCE RADICALS explores the politics of extraction, energy, and infrastructure in order to understand how resource dependency becomes a dilemma for leftist governments and social movements alike. Thea Riofrancos offers an ethnographic account of extraction politics in Ecuado…
From neoliberalismo to extractivismo : the dialectic of governance and critique -- Extractivismo as grand narrative of resistance -- Consulta Previa : the political life of a constitutional right -- The Demos in dispute -- Governing the future : "information," counter-knowledge,…
"RESOURCE RADICALS explores the politics of extraction, energy, and infrastructure in order to understand how resource dependency becomes a dilemma for leftist governments and social movements alike. Thea Riofrancos offers an ethnographic account of extraction politics in Ecuado…
"RESOURCE RADICALS explores the politics of extraction, energy, and infrastructure in order to understand how resource dependency becomes a dilemma for leftist governments and social movements alike. Thea Riofrancos offers an ethnographic account of extraction politics in Ecuado…