Riofrancos Thea Riofrancos

Resource Radicals (eBook, PDF)

From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador

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Produktbeschreibung

In 2007, the left came to power in Ecuador. In the years that followed, the "e;twenty-first-century socialist"e; 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 socioeconomic 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 government's 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478012122
• Artikelnr.: 66282404

Autorenporträt

Thea Riofrancos is Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College and coauthor of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction: Resource Radicalisms  1
1. From Neoliberalismo to Extractivismo: The Dialectic of Governance and
Critique  29
2. Extractivismo as Grand Narrative of Resistance  57
3. Consulta Previa: The Political Life of a Constitutional Right  77
4. The Demos in Dispute  115
5. Governing the Future: "Information," Counter-Knowledge, and the Futuro
Minero  138
6. Conclusion: The Dilemmas of the Pink Tide  164
Notes  185
Bibliography  227
Index