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Oil, Revolution, and Indigenous Citizenship in Ecuadorian Amazonia - (Latin American Political Economy) (Hardcover)

Oil, Revolution, and Indigenous Citizenship in Ecuadorian Amazonia - (Latin American Political Economy) (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This book addresses the political ecology of the Ecuadorian petro-state since the turn of the century and contextualizes state-civil society relations in contemporary Ecuador to produce an analysis of oil and Revolution in twenty-first century Latin America. Ecuador's recent history is marked by changes in state-citizen relations: the election of political firebrand, Rafael Correa; a new constitution recognizing the value of pluriculturality and nature's rights; and new rules for distributing state oil revenues. One of the most emblematic projects at this time is the Correa administration's Revolución Ciudadana, an oil-funded project of social investment and infrastructural development that claims to blaze a responsible and responsive path towards wellbeing for all Ecuadorians. The contributors to this book examine the key interventions of the recent political revolution--the investment of oil revenues into public works in Amazonia and across Ecuador; an initiative to keep oil underground; and the protection of the country's most marginalized peoples--to illustrate how new forms of citizenship are required and forged. Through a focus on Amazonia and the Waorani, this book analyzes the burdens and opportunities created by oil-financed social and environmental change, and how these alter life in Amazonian extraction sites and across Ecuador.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"This is an outstanding contribution to the literature on neo-extractivism and indigenous peoples in Latin America. It raises difficult questions about what the post-neoliberal projects of the Ecuadorian petro-state have meant and will continue to mean for indigenous citizens who are insufficiently recognized, co-opted and reified for their symbolic capital, and engaged in ways that are inefficient, insensitive, and often counter-productive. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with the innumerable and often disguised costs of continuing oil extraction." (Erin Fitz-Henry, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, Vol. 23 (2), 2017)<p></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Flora Lu</b> is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Provost of Colleges Nine and Ten at University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.<br/><b>Gabriela Valdivia</b> is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, and Fellow at the UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities.<br/><b>Néstor L. Silva</b> is Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University, USA. <br/>

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