Pachamama politics : campesino water defenders and the anti-mining movement in Andean Ecuador /

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"Ecuador became the first country in the world to grant the Pachamama, or Mother Earth, constitutional rights in 2008. This landmark achievement represented a shift to incorporate Indigenous philosophies of Sumak Kawsay or Buen Vivir (to live well) as a framework for social and political change...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Velásquez, Teresa A., 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Indians of South America > Ecuador > Government relations.
Indians of South America > Ecuador > Politics and government.
Mines and mineral resources > Environmental aspects > Ecuador.
Water rights > Ecuador.
Droits sur les eaux > Équateur.
Indiens d'Amerique > Équateur > Relations avec l'État.
Peuples autochtones > Équateur > Relations avec l'État.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Water rights.
Mines and mineral resources > Environmental aspects.
Indians of South America > Politics and government.
Indians of South America > Government relations.
Ecuador.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Testing the waters : the rise of anti-mining activism
  • 2. Criminalizing the defensoras : building the neoextractive state
  • 3. "Water is life" : from Quimsacocha to the Pachamama
  • 4. Indigenous and campesino struggles for a plurinational state
  • 5. Decolonizing identities : reconsidering race, gender, and Mestizaje
  • 6. Defending lo nuestro : fighting for water autonomy
  • Conclusion.

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