La Lucha Continua
A Presentist Lens on Social Protest in Ecuador
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13054867 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J L Schwab (0000-0002-7297-8791, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-26 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Inclusion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2183-2803 • E-ISSN: 2183-2803 |
| Publisher | Cogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT) |
| DOI | 10.17645/si.v11i2.6496 |
| OpenAlex | W4367189236 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 48 |
Ecuador has one of the most progressive constitutions in Latin America. It defines the state as plurinational and guarantees collective rights to Indigenous people and even to Nature itself. At the same time, the oil sector has been of strategic importance and “national interest” to both right‐ and left‐wing governments for the last decades, contributing with its rents and revenues to around one‐third of the state coffers. Therefore, the extractivist model remains unchallenged and still promises development—while reproducing systemic inequalities and a “continuum of violence.” In June 2022, the Indigenous movement called for a nationwide strike to draw attention to the socio‐economic crisis following the pandemic. The authorities harshly repressed the mobilization and a racializing media discourse demarcated the “Indigenous” agenda from the needs of “all Ecuadorians,” classifying the protesters as “terrorists” and thus, a threat to the nation. Drawing on ethnographic research, this article discusses the role of extractivism in social mobilization. Exploring the future of social protest in Ecuador in the face of new pressures like climate change and the energy transition, it argues that extractivist patterns will change globally and amplify social discontent and mobilization
Economics · Economy · Indigenous · Latin Americans · Mobilization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social mobilization · Social movement · Sociology · State (computer science · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Politics and Society in Latin America · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
The Anthropology of the Future
The Paradox of Plenty
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Green Sacrifice Zones, or Why a Green New Deal Cannot Ignore the Cost Shifts of Just Transitions
Slow violence and toxic geographies
Debating Alternative Development at the Mining Frontier
Open Veins of Latin America
Beyond temporality
Conjectures on world energy literature
New political ecologies of renewable energy
Governing relations between people and things
The extractive imperative in Latin America
Material constraints to popular imaginaries
Commodities Consensus
The Will to Be Otherwise/The Effort of Endurance
Extractivism and the rights of nature
El estado plurinacional y la sociedad intercultural
Amazonia. Violencias, resistencias, propuestas
Violence, Peace, and Peace Research
Cultural Violence
Who Speaks for Nature
Decolonizing Development in Diné Bikeyah
Symbolic Power
The Cultural Anthropology of Time
Mining versus Oil Extraction
An Anthropology of Structural Violence
On the Coloniality of Being
From extractivism to global extractivism
Emergent Axioms of Violence
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |