Suzana Sawyer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3621636 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Suzana Sawyer |
| NOMBRES | Suzana |
| APELLIDO | Sawyer |
| FIRMA | SAWYER S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 116 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and the Neo-liberal State in Latin America
In recent years the concept and study of "civil society" has received a lot of attention from political scientists, economists, and sociologists, but less so from anthropologists. A ground-breaking ethnographic approach to civil society as it is formed in indigenous communities in Latin America, this volume explores the multiple potentialities of civil society's growth and critically assesses the potential for sustained change. Much recent litera…
Amazonian Imaginaries
Crude Chronicles
Corporations
At the dawn of the twenty‐first century, the corporation appears as one of the more stable, enduring, ubiquitous, and influential institutions of modern life. This entry provides a genealogy of the corporation and a suggestive guide for considering corporate power as a problematic. Rather than the inexorable product of a capitalist logic or fated quintessence of liberal democracy, the modern corporation, as discussed here, has a singular relation…
Chemical Geographies
The following are a series of essays that originated from panel on Chemical Geographies at the American Association of Geographers meeting in 2016. Although the essays explore different topics, collectively they call into question the relationship of geographic scholarship to chemistry
The Politics of Resource Extraction
International institutions (United Nations, World Bank) and multinational companies have voiced concern over the adverse impact of resource extraction activities on the livelihood of indigenous commun
Commentary
Hannah Appel's notion of “modularity” in her analysis of contemporary transnational oil operations exquisitely captures the work required to create the illusion that petroleum production is removed from and uncompromised by local entanglements. Her study belies the notion (peddled by the industry) that the extraction of crude oil is a technoscientific wonder detached from disruptive inequalities and tumultuous political conditions that too freque…
Human energy
In the midst of big-oil record profits and growing debate on global warming, the Chevron Corporation launched its “Human Energy” public relations campaign. In television commercials and print advertisements, Chevron portrays itself as a compassionate entity striving to solve the planet’s energy crisis. Yet, the first term in this corporate oxymoron misleadingly reframes the significance of the second, suggesting that the corporation has a renewed…
Crude Chronicles
Empire/Multitude—State/Civil Society
This article uses a lawsuit against Chevron as a means to examine the complex, compromised, and incomplete practices that form what can be described as Empire/Multitude and state/civil society. The class-action suit, filed on behalf of 30,000 Ecuadorian citizens, encapsulates processes of globalization and their attendant consequences. I argue that the binaries Empire/Multitude and state/civil society assume a physiology of coherence and topograp…
Crude Chronicles
Disabling Corporate Sovereignty in a Transnational Lawsuit
This article examines the opening proceedings of a lawsuit against Chevron-Texaco filed on behalf of 30,000 Ecuadorians for industrial contamination in the country's Amazonian region. It asks what are the legal and ethical regimes at play in defining (and denying) corporate sovereignty and impunity, corporate entanglements and accountabilities. Sawyer argues that while the notion of the corporation as a sovereign embodied entity ("natural person"…
In Search of the Rain Forest
The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest. The slogan “Save the Rain Forest!”—emblazoned on glossy posters of tall trees wreathed in vines and studded with monkeys and parrots—promotes the popular image of a marvelously wild and vulnerable rain forest. Although representations like these have fueled laudable rescue efforts, in many ways they have done more harm tha…
Bobbittizing Texaco
Fictions of Sovereignly
This article explores how rights and accountability are produced and erased under neoliberal regimes. It examines a class‐action law suit against Texaco Inc. filed in the U.S. on behalf of 30,000 campesinos and indígenas from the Ecuadorian Amazon. The $1.5 billion lawsuit alleged that over 25 years of environmental contamination from Texaco operations exposed local inhabitants to lethal toxins. By probing the connections between what the author …
Fictions of Sovereignly
Environmental Orientalisms
Newsbriefs
The 1992 Indian Mobilization in Lowland Ecuador
province in the central Ecuadorian Amazon gathered in Puyo, the provincial capital, to embark on what would become one of the most effective mobili-zations of lowland Indians in recent Latin American history. Adorned with facial paint and feathers, carrying spears and children, often ill-prepared for the vagaries of lowland-highland climate change, Quichua, Achuar, and Shiwiar peacefully marched to Quito, Ecuador’s capital, some 240 kilometers aw…
Chemical Geographies
The following are a series of essays that originated from panel on Chemical Geographies at the American Association of Geographers meeting in 2016. Although the essays explore different topics, collectively they call into question the relationship of geographic scholarship to chemistry
Disabling Corporate Sovereignty in a Transnational Lawsuit
This article examines the opening proceedings of a lawsuit against Chevron-Texaco filed on behalf of 30,000 Ecuadorians for industrial contamination in the country's Amazonian region. It asks what are the legal and ethical regimes at play in defining (and denying) corporate sovereignty and impunity, corporate entanglements and accountabilities. Sawyer argues that while the notion of the corporation as a sovereign embodied entity ("natural person"…
The 1992 Indian Mobilization in Lowland Ecuador
province in the central Ecuadorian Amazon gathered in Puyo, the provincial capital, to embark on what would become one of the most effective mobili-zations of lowland Indians in recent Latin American history. Adorned with facial paint and feathers, carrying spears and children, often ill-prepared for the vagaries of lowland-highland climate change, Quichua, Achuar, and Shiwiar peacefully marched to Quito, Ecuador’s capital, some 240 kilometers aw…
Bobbittizing Texaco
Environmental Orientalisms
Commentary
Hannah Appel's notion of “modularity” in her analysis of contemporary transnational oil operations exquisitely captures the work required to create the illusion that petroleum production is removed from and uncompromised by local entanglements. Her study belies the notion (peddled by the industry) that the extraction of crude oil is a technoscientific wonder detached from disruptive inequalities and tumultuous political conditions that too freque…
In Search of the Rain Forest
The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest. The slogan “Save the Rain Forest!”—emblazoned on glossy posters of tall trees wreathed in vines and studded with monkeys and parrots—promotes the popular image of a marvelously wild and vulnerable rain forest. Although representations like these have fueled laudable rescue efforts, in many ways they have done more harm tha…
Human energy
In the midst of big-oil record profits and growing debate on global warming, the Chevron Corporation launched its “Human Energy” public relations campaign. In television commercials and print advertisements, Chevron portrays itself as a compassionate entity striving to solve the planet’s energy crisis. Yet, the first term in this corporate oxymoron misleadingly reframes the significance of the second, suggesting that the corporation has a renewed…
Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and the Neo-liberal State in Latin America
In recent years the concept and study of "civil society" has received a lot of attention from political scientists, economists, and sociologists, but less so from anthropologists. A ground-breaking ethnographic approach to civil society as it is formed in indigenous communities in Latin America, this volume explores the multiple potentialities of civil society's growth and critically assesses the potential for sustained change. Much recent litera…
Newsbriefs
The 1992 Indian Mobilization in Lowland Ecuador
province in the central Ecuadorian Amazon gathered in Puyo, the provincial capital, to embark on what would become one of the most effective mobili-zations of lowland Indians in recent Latin American history. Adorned with facial paint and feathers, carrying spears and children, often ill-prepared for the vagaries of lowland-highland climate change, Quichua, Achuar, and Shiwiar peacefully marched to Quito, Ecuador’s capital, some 240 kilometers aw…
Environmental Orientalisms
Fictions of Sovereignly
This article explores how rights and accountability are produced and erased under neoliberal regimes. It examines a class‐action law suit against Texaco Inc. filed in the U.S. on behalf of 30,000 campesinos and indígenas from the Ecuadorian Amazon. The $1.5 billion lawsuit alleged that over 25 years of environmental contamination from Texaco operations exposed local inhabitants to lethal toxins. By probing the connections between what the author …
Fictions of Sovereignly
Bobbittizing Texaco
In Search of the Rain Forest
The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest. The slogan “Save the Rain Forest!”—emblazoned on glossy posters of tall trees wreathed in vines and studded with monkeys and parrots—promotes the popular image of a marvelously wild and vulnerable rain forest. Although representations like these have fueled laudable rescue efforts, in many ways they have done more harm tha…
Crude Chronicles
Disabling Corporate Sovereignty in a Transnational Lawsuit
This article examines the opening proceedings of a lawsuit against Chevron-Texaco filed on behalf of 30,000 Ecuadorians for industrial contamination in the country's Amazonian region. It asks what are the legal and ethical regimes at play in defining (and denying) corporate sovereignty and impunity, corporate entanglements and accountabilities. Sawyer argues that while the notion of the corporation as a sovereign embodied entity ("natural person"…
Empire/Multitude—State/Civil Society
This article uses a lawsuit against Chevron as a means to examine the complex, compromised, and incomplete practices that form what can be described as Empire/Multitude and state/civil society. The class-action suit, filed on behalf of 30,000 Ecuadorian citizens, encapsulates processes of globalization and their attendant consequences. I argue that the binaries Empire/Multitude and state/civil society assume a physiology of coherence and topograp…
Crude Chronicles
Human energy
In the midst of big-oil record profits and growing debate on global warming, the Chevron Corporation launched its “Human Energy” public relations campaign. In television commercials and print advertisements, Chevron portrays itself as a compassionate entity striving to solve the planet’s energy crisis. Yet, the first term in this corporate oxymoron misleadingly reframes the significance of the second, suggesting that the corporation has a renewed…
The Politics of Resource Extraction
International institutions (United Nations, World Bank) and multinational companies have voiced concern over the adverse impact of resource extraction activities on the livelihood of indigenous commun
Commentary
Hannah Appel's notion of “modularity” in her analysis of contemporary transnational oil operations exquisitely captures the work required to create the illusion that petroleum production is removed from and uncompromised by local entanglements. Her study belies the notion (peddled by the industry) that the extraction of crude oil is a technoscientific wonder detached from disruptive inequalities and tumultuous political conditions that too freque…
Chemical Geographies
The following are a series of essays that originated from panel on Chemical Geographies at the American Association of Geographers meeting in 2016. Although the essays explore different topics, collectively they call into question the relationship of geographic scholarship to chemistry
Corporations
At the dawn of the twenty‐first century, the corporation appears as one of the more stable, enduring, ubiquitous, and influential institutions of modern life. This entry provides a genealogy of the corporation and a suggestive guide for considering corporate power as a problematic. Rather than the inexorable product of a capitalist logic or fated quintessence of liberal democracy, the modern corporation, as discussed here, has a singular relation…
Amazonian Imaginaries
Crude Chronicles
Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and the Neo-liberal State in Latin America
In recent years the concept and study of "civil society" has received a lot of attention from political scientists, economists, and sociologists, but less so from anthropologists. A ground-breaking ethnographic approach to civil society as it is formed in indigenous communities in Latin America, this volume explores the multiple potentialities of civil society's growth and critically assesses the potential for sustained change. Much recent litera…
Political science (14 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Politics (10 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Politics and Society in Latin America (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Indigenous (5 obras) · Political economy (5 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 obras) · Corporation (4 obras)