Extractivism and Universality: Inside an Uprising in the Amazon

ISBN-13: 9781032386126 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 160 str.

UK) Wilson Japhy (University of Manchester

Opis

This book explores a spontaneous uprising that occurred in the Ecuadorian Amazon, in which workers confronted a multinational oil company and a militarized state, examining the possibilities that exist for a radical politics of universality, how it can emerge on the frontiers of global capitalism and how it can be researched and conveyed.

Spis treści

1 We Are All Indigenous
2 The Savage Road
3 The Drop That Spilt the Glass
4 Wild Style
5 Battling a Monster
6 Grand Inferno
7  The Insurgent Universal

O autorze

Japhy Wilson is Honorary Research Fellow in Politics at the University of Manchester. His research explores the politics of development and the possibilities of radical transformation under conditions of global capitalism. He is the author of Reality of Dreams: Post-Neoliberal Utopias in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Yale University Press) and Jeffrey Sachs: The Strange Case of Dr. Shock and Mr. Aid (Verso), and co-editor of The Post-Political and Its Discontents: Spaces of Depoliticization, Spectres of Radical Politics (Edinburgh University Press).