Resource Radicals

From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador

Thea Riofrancos (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2020
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0796-8 (ISBN)

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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 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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	12.08.2020
Reihe/Serie	Radical Américas
Zusatzinfo	15 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-0796-6 / 1478007966
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0796-8 / 9781478007968
Zustand	Neuware