Undoing multiculturalism : resource extraction and indigenous rights in Ecuador / Carmen Martinez Novo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martínez Novo, Carmen, 1966- author.

Series:

Pitt Latin American series.

Pitt Latin American Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Ecuador.

Indigenous peoples.

Ecuador--Politics and government--21st century.

Ecuador.

Correa, Rafael.

Physical Description:

1 online resource. 1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]

Summary:

"President Rafael Correa (2007-2017) led the Ecuadoran Citizens' Revolution that claimed to challenge the tenets of neoliberalism and the legacies of colonialism. The Correa administration promised to advance Indigenous and Afro-descendant rights and redistribute resources to the most vulnerable. In many cases, these promises proved to be hollow. Using two decades of ethnographic research, Undoing Multiculturalism examines why these intentions did not become a reality, and how the Correa administration undermined the progress of Indigenous people. A main complication was pursuing independence from multilateral organizations in the context of skyrocketing commodity prices, which caused a new reliance on natural resource extraction. Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and other organized groups resisted the expansion of extractive industries into their territories because they threatened their livelihoods and safety. As the Citizens' Revolution and other "Pink Tide" governments struggled to finance budgets and maintain power, they watered down subnational forms of self-government, slowed down land redistribution, weakened the politicized cultural identities that gave strength to social movements, and reversed other fundamental gains of the multicultural era"--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction. Undoing Multiculturalism

Being Indigenous in Ecuador

Dispensing and Curtailing Rights through Policy and Practice

The Minimization of Indigenous Numbers and the Fragmentation of Civil Society

Creating and Dismantling Intercultural Bilingual Education

Anthropology and Indigenous Peoples: Collaborations and Estrangements

The Salesian Missions: Navigating Neoliberalism and Nationalist-Extractivism with the Indigenous Movement

Ventriloquism, Racism, and the Politics of Decolonial Scholarship

Conclusion. Neoliberalism, Nationalist-Extractivism, and Racial Formations in Ecuador.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822946632

0822946637

OCLC:

1247157936