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Resource Radicals - From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador (Hardcover)
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Resource Radicals - From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador (Hardcover)
Series: Radical Americas
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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.
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