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Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador

Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador

Sawyer, Suzana

Paperback

Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions

AnthropologySouth American History

ISBN10: 0822332728
ISBN13: 9780822332725
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
Published: Jun 7 2004
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.70 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
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.

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