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11%OFFSuzana Sawyer - Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador - 9780822332725 - V9780822332725
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Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador

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Description for Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador Paperback. An ethnographic study of indigenous opposition to processes of economic globalization, arguing that neoliberal economic reforms both provoked a crisis of governance and created the conditions for a disruptive indigenous movement in Ecuador Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 312 pages, 28 b&w photos, 6 maps, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; JFSL9; JPW; KJVG; KNBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 418.
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, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Series
American Encounters/Global Interactions
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822332725
SKU
V9780822332725
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About Suzana Sawyer
Suzana Sawyer is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis.

Reviews for Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador
“Crude Chronicles seamlessly weaves the compelling richness of an exceptional ethnographic account with the power of a story well told. By chronicling the history of the ongoing contest that has characterized the politics of petroleum in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Sawyer brilliantly illustrates the imbricated process by which indigenous and neoliberal geophraphies are configured and reconfigured in the process of making ... Read more

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