| Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador Contributor(s): Riofrancos, Thea (Author) |
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ISBN: 1478008482 ISBN-13: 9781478008484 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $26.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - South America - Political Science | Public Policy - Energy Policy - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 333.809 |
| LCCN: 2019046729 |
| Series: Radical Américas |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.8" W x 8.7" (0.85 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |