Lindsay Ofrias
Biographic Data
| ID | 818579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lindsay Ofrias |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lindsay |
| FAMILY NAME | Ofrias |
| SIGNATURE | OFRIAS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Organized criminals, human rights defenders, and oil companies
This article examines how the world's arguably largest oil disaster, in the heart of Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, has become a testing ground for new global forms of corporate power and the criminalization of dissent. Following the ongoing "trial of the century" between Chevron Corporation and plaintiffs representing tens of thousands of smallholder farmers and indigenous people affected by the disaster, we look at how the Racketeer Influenced an…
Invisible harms, invisible profits: A Theory of the Incentive to Contaminate
Building on ethnographic research conducted in the Ecuadorian Amazon, this paper seeks to reframe the industrial contamination problem. From critiques of neoliberalism to Marxist-oriented environment theories, industrial contamination is understood as a secondary effect of a larger problem of the capitalist system. There are at least four, often overlapping, ways of understanding the pervasiveness of the problem, via: (1) cost-benefit analyses, w…
Invisible harms, invisible profits: A Theory of the Incentive to Contaminate
Building on ethnographic research conducted in the Ecuadorian Amazon, this paper seeks to reframe the industrial contamination problem. From critiques of neoliberalism to Marxist-oriented environment theories, industrial contamination is understood as a secondary effect of a larger problem of the capitalist system. There are at least four, often overlapping, ways of understanding the pervasiveness of the problem, via: (1) cost-benefit analyses, w…
Organized criminals, human rights defenders, and oil companies
This article examines how the world's arguably largest oil disaster, in the heart of Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, has become a testing ground for new global forms of corporate power and the criminalization of dissent. Following the ongoing "trial of the century" between Chevron Corporation and plaintiffs representing tens of thousands of smallholder farmers and indigenous people affected by the disaster, we look at how the Racketeer Influenced an…
Invisible harms, invisible profits: A Theory of the Incentive to Contaminate
Building on ethnographic research conducted in the Ecuadorian Amazon, this paper seeks to reframe the industrial contamination problem. From critiques of neoliberalism to Marxist-oriented environment theories, industrial contamination is understood as a secondary effect of a larger problem of the capitalist system. There are at least four, often overlapping, ways of understanding the pervasiveness of the problem, via: (1) cost-benefit analyses, w…
Organized criminals, human rights defenders, and oil companies
This article examines how the world's arguably largest oil disaster, in the heart of Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, has become a testing ground for new global forms of corporate power and the criminalization of dissent. Following the ongoing "trial of the century" between Chevron Corporation and plaintiffs representing tens of thousands of smallholder farmers and indigenous people affected by the disaster, we look at how the Racketeer Influenced an…
Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (2 works) · Amazon rainforest (1 works) · Comity (1 works) · Corporation (1 works) · Corruption and Economic Development (1 works) · Criminalization (1 works) · Dissent (1 works) · Human rights (1 works) · Indigenous (1 works) · Jurisdiction (1 works)