Resource Radicals From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador
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...

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1. Verfasser: Riofrancos, Thea N. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press [2020]
Schriftenreihe:Radical Américas
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HISTORY / Latin America / South America
Economic development > Environmental aspects > Ecuador
Energy policy > Ecuador
Environmental policy > Ecuador
Mineral industries > Government policy > Ecuador
Mineral industries > Political aspects > Ecuador
Natural resources > Political aspects > Ecuador
Online-Zugang:DE-1043
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DE-858
DE-859
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DE-706
DE-739
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (264 pages)
ISBN:9781478012122
DOI:10.1515/9781478012122

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