| Oil Injustice: Resisting and Conceding a Pipeline in Ecuador Contributor(s): Widener, Patricia (Author) |
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ISBN: 1442208619 ISBN-13: 9781442208612 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $153.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Developing & Emerging Countries - Transportation - Political Science | Political Economy |
| Dewey: 388.550 |
| LCCN: 2011013489 |
| Series: Another World Is Necessary: Human Rights, Environmental Justice, and Popular Democracy |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.6" W x 9.1" (1.40 lbs) 388 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Oil Injustice examines the mobilization efforts of four communities with different oil histories in response to the construction of an oil pipeline. Using multiple sites in Ecuador as case studies, Patricia Widener examines the efforts of grassroots groups, non-governmental organizations, activist mayors, and transnational advocates that mobilized to redefine the country's oil path and to represent the voice of many local communities and organizations that sought to offer an alternative to the nation's oil dependency and to the use of its oil wealth. These groups generated divergent and at times rival reactions to the pipeline, though at their core, the multiple campaigns developed from a shared history and awareness of a number of marginalized communities and degraded environments in areas most important to the oil process. Widener shows that global environmental justice demands are bound within a capitalist political system, where community activists, national NGOs and their international allies are forced to seek local change rather than attempt to defeat a disabling and unequal system. |
Contributor Bio(s): Widener, Patricia: - Associate Professor, Department of Sociology |
