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Author Sawyer, Suzana, 1961-

Title Crude chronicles : indigenous politics, multinational oil, and neoliberalism in Ecuador / Suzana Sawyer
Published Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 294 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series American encounters/global interactions
American encounters/global interactions.
Contents National narratives -- Amazonian imaginaries -- Crude excesses -- Petroleum politics -- Neoliberal ironies -- Corporate antipolitics -- Raced realities -- Contested terrain -- Liberal legal-scapes
Summary Ecuador is the third-largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the western United States. As the source of this oil, the Ecuadorian Amazon has borne the far-reaching social and environmental consequences of a growing U.S. demand for petroleum and the dynamics of economic globalization it necessitates. Crude Chronicles traces the emergence during the 1990s of a highly organized indigenous movement and its struggles against a U.S. oil company and Ecuadorian neoliberal policies. Against the backdrop of mounting government attempts to privatize and liberalize the national economy, Suzana Sawyer shows how neoliberal reforms in Ecuador led to a crisis of governance, accountability, and representation that spurred one of twentieth-century Latin America's strongest indigenous movements. Through her rich ethnography of indigenous marches, demonstrations, occupations, and negotiations, Sawyer tracks the growing sophistication of indigenous politics as Indians subverted, re-deployed, and, at times, capitulated to the dictates and desires of a transnational neoliberal logic. At the same time, she follows the multiple maneuvers and discourses that the multinational corporation and the Ecuadorian state used to circumscribe and contain indigenous opposition. Ultimately, Sawyer reveals that indigenous struggles over land and oil operations in Ecuador were as much about reconfiguring national and transnational inequality - that is, rupturing the silence around racial injustice, exacting spaces of accountability, and rewriting narratives of national belonging - as they were about the material use and extraction of rain-forest resources
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-275) and index
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Subject Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Economic conditions
Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Politics and government
Petroleum industry and trade -- Environmental aspects -- Ecuador
Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Social conditions
Protest movements -- Ecuador
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
Economic policy
Indians of South America -- Economic conditions
Indians of South America -- Politics and government
Indians of South America -- Social conditions
Petroleum industry and trade -- Environmental aspects
Protest movements
Inheemse volken.
Protestbewegingen.
Indianer -- Ecuador.
Ursprungsbefolkningar -- politisk verksamhet -- Ecuador.
Oljehandel -- Ecuador.
SUBJECT Ecuador -- Economic policy
Subject Ecuador
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822385752
0822385759