Making Space
Community Organization, Agrarian Change, and the Politics of Scale in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4965337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Perreault (0000-0003-0325-2652, Syracuse University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 96-121 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0094582x02239146 |
| OpenAlex | W2114749923 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
| References cited | 40 |
At the western edge of the Ecuadorian Amazon, 20 kilometers north of the town of Tena, is the centro matriz, or administrative center, of Mondayacu, a Quichua community of about 1,200 people. Here stand a few dozen houses, most made of rough-hewn boards and tin roofs, though many have been constructed at least in part with split bamboo siding and have roofs of thatch. A handful of stores sell basic foodstuffs, soda, liquor, notebooks, pens and pencils. Women wash their laundry, their children, and themselves in roadside pools fed by water diverted from a distant stream, and children play soccer and basketball next to the community meeting house. Though most homes within 100 meters of the highway are wired for electricity, there are no telephones here, no running water, no sewerage. On a hill overlooking the center are Mondayacu's elementary and bilingual intercultural secondary schools. The concentration of houses and other buildings along the highway represents the first line of defense against the incursions of colonists from the highlands or coast and the first stage in the long process of obtaining legal title to the community's land claims. Away from the road, clearings in the forest for
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Active transformative pathways for local agri-food systems
Grounding Globalization
Territorial pluralism
Negotiating the Nagoya Protocol
The commons” as a dynamic variable in understanding strategic alliances of scale
Redd+ implementation in the Ecuadorian Amazon
The politics of water democracy
The agri-food system (re)configuration
Vacating place, vacated space? A research agenda for places where people leave
Using scale and human agency to frame ranchers’ discussions about socio-ecological change and resilience
Political ecology II
The building of mining discourses and the politics of scale in Ecuador
Scalar Politics in Sectoral Reforms
Ethnicity, Labor and Indigenous Populations in the Ecuadorian Amazon, 1822-2010
Grassroots scalar politics
Vernacular legibility in counter-mapping
There’s nothing inherent about scale
Navigating the spaces between human rights and justice
Power, Identity and the Production of Buffer Villages in “the Second Most Remote Region in all of Mexico”
Le développement des agricultures durables dans la région andine de Cusco
Changing places
On Indigeneity, Change, and Representation in the Northeastern Ecuadorian Amazon
A People with Our Own Identity
Titles of Contention
Demo-Cartographic Imaginaries
Landscape Change in Western Amazonia
Scale, networks, and information strategies
Social Movements, the State, and the Making of Food Sovereignty in Ecuador
The MST and the EZLN Struggle for Land
Livelihood interests, organizational discipline, and grassroots participation in Ecuadorian indigenous movement protests
Indigenous Movements in the Central Andes
La Vía Campesina
From boomerangs to minefields and catapults
Environmental Impacts and Scarcity Perception Influence Local Institutions in Indigenous Amazonian Kichwa Communities
Recapturing anthropology
Cultural transformations and ethnicity in modern Ecuador
Geography, Difference and the Politics of Scale
Geographies of Economies
Place/Culture/Representation
Linguistics and Indigenous American Languages
Los Desafios De La Etnicidad
Reinventing the Communal Tradition
The social construction of scale
Trust in a rent-seeking world
Capitals and Capabilities
Politics and Petroleum in Ecuador
A Sense of Possibility Ecuador’s Indigenous Movement Takes Center Stage
Developing identities
The condition of postmodernity
Social justice and the city
Agricultural Settlement and Ecological Crisis in the Ecuadorian Amazon Frontier
Labor's spatial praxis and the geography of contract bargaining in the US east coast longshore industry, 1953-1989
The dramaturgy of horizons
Scales of justice
Empowering political struggle
Spaces of dependence, spaces of engagement and the politics of scale, or
Culture sits in places
Democracy, Indigenous Movements, and Postliberal Challenge in Latin America
A world in a grain of sand
How does civil society thicken? the political construction of social capital in rural Mexico
The Practice of International Labor Solidarity and the Geography of the Global Economy
Development or Destruction
Social Capital and Rural Intensification
Between Fixity and Motion
The Scale Politics of Spaliality
Whose Knowledge, Whose nature? Biodiversity, Conservation, and the Political Ecology of Social Movements
The 1992 Indian Mobilization in Lowland Ecuador
Ethnopolitics in Ecuador
The Life and Times of Grandfather Alonso
Encountering Development
Return of the Yumbo
Blackness, the Racial/Spatial Order, Migrations, and Miss Ecuador 1995-96
Spaces of Vulnerability
| Unique citing works | 34 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,42 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2025 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |