Oil, Revolution, and Indigenous Citizenship in Ecuadorian Amazonia

Flora Lu is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Provost of Colleges Nine and Ten at University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.Gabriela Valdivia is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, and Fellow at the UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities.Néstor L. Silva is Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University, USA.

“This is an outstanding contribution to the literature on neo-extractivism and indigenous peoples in Latin America. It raises difficult questions about what the post-neoliberal projects of the Ecuadorian petro-state have meant and will continue to mean for indigenous citizens who are insufficiently recognized, co-opted and reified for their symbolic capital, and engaged in ways that are inefficient, insensitive, and often counter-productive. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with the innumerable and often disguised costs of continuing oil extraction.” (Erin Fitz-Henry, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, Vol. 23 (2), 2017)

• 1. The Road to the Revolución Ciudadana .- 2. In and Out of the Shadows of Citizenship .- 3. Habits of Oil Rule .- 4. The Problem of Poverty .- 5. Oil as Risk in Waorani Territory .- 6. Neoextractivism and Its Contestation .- 7. Human Rights and People in Voluntary Isolation .- 8. Oil Flux and Unrest.