Crude Chronicles

Sawyer Suzana Sawyer

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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.

Sujets

• Histoire
• América del Sur
• Multinational
• Indigenous peoples
• South America
• History of the Americas
• Activism
• Ecuador

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 07 juin 2004
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822385752
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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C R U D E C H R O N I C L E S

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Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and

Neoliberalism in Ecuador

Suzana Sawyer

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A M E R I C A N E N C O U N T E R S / G L O B A L I N T E R A C T I O N S A series edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Emily S. Rosenberg

This series is intended to stimulate critical perspectives and fresh interpretive frameworks for scholarship on the history of the imposing global presence of the United States. Its primary concerns include the deployment and contestation of power, the construction and deconstruction of cultural and political borders, the fluid meanings of intercultural encounters, and the complex interplay between the global and the local. American Encounters seeks to strengthen dialogue and collaboration between historians of U.S. international relations and area studies specialists.

The series encourages scholarship based on multiarchival historical research. At the same time, it supports a recognition of the representational character of all stories about the past and promotes critical inquiry into issues of subjectivity and narrative. In the process, American Encounters strives to understand the context in which meanings related to nations, cultures, and political economy are continually produced, challenged, and reshaped.

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C O N T E N T S

Acknowledgments, xi A Note on Names, xiii

Opening, 

  . Amazonian Imaginaries,  . Crude Excesses, 

  . Neoliberal Ironies,  . Corporate Antipolitics, 

  . Contested Terrain,  . Liberal Legal-Scapes, 

Closing: A Plurinational Space, 

Notes,  Acronyms,  Glossary,  Bibliography,  Index, 