Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador

by Thea Riofrancos

Book Overview

In 2007, the left came to power in Ecuador. In the years that followed, the "twenty-first-century socialist" government and a coalition of grassroots activists came to blows over the extraction of natural resources. Each side declared the other a perversion of leftism and the principles of socio-economic equality, popular empowerment, and anti-imperialism. In Resource Radicals, Thea Riofrancos unpacks the conflict between these two leftisms:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478008482
• ISBN13: 9781478008484
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.7"