From Enron to Evo : Pipeline Politics, Global Environmentalism, and Indigenous Rights in Bolivia /

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Throughout the Americas, a boom in oil, gas, and mining development has pushed the extractive frontier deeper into Indigenous territories. Centering on a long-term study of Enron and Shell's Cuiabá pipeline, this book traces the struggles of Bolivia's Indigenous peoples for self-determina...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hindery, Derrick, 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social conditions.
Petroleum industry and trade
Natural gas pipelines
Ethnoecology.
Indians of South America > Politics and government
Indians of South America > Land tenure
Indians of South America > Civil rights
Fossil fuel power plants
Environmental protection
Environmental justice
Ecology
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Centrales thermiques classiques > Bresil > Cuiabá (Mato Grosso)
Fossil fuel power plants > Brazil > Cuiabá (Mato Grosso)
Environmental justice > Bolivia > Territorio Indígena Parque Nacional Isiboro-Secure.
Environmental protection > Bolivia > Territorio Indígena Parque Nacional Isiboro-Secure.
Natural gas pipelines > Bolivia > Territorio Indígena Parque Nacional Isiboro-Secure.
Petroleum industry and trade > Bolivia > Territorio Indígena Parque Nacional Isiboro-Secure.
Ethnoecology > Bolivia > Territorio Indígena Parque Nacional Isiboro-Secure.
Indians of South America > Bolivia > Territorio Indígena Parque Nacional Isiboro-Secure > Politics and government.
Indians of South America > Civil rights > Bolivia > Territorio Indígena Parque Nacional Isiboro-Secure.
Indians of South America > Land tenure > Bolivia > Territorio Indígena Parque Nacional Isiboro-Secure.
Brazil > Cuiabá (Mato Grosso)
Bolivia > Territorio Indígena Parque Nacional Isiboro-Secure
Territorio Indígena Parque Nacional Isiboro-Secure (Bolivia) > Environmental conditions.
Territorio Indígena Parque Nacional Isiboro-Secure (Bolivia) > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Political ecology, pipelines, and the conduits of resistance
  • The neoliberal turn and the rise of resistance
  • Green-stamping a pipeline
  • Struggling for transparency and fairness
  • Struggling for consultation, compensation, and territory
  • Struggling for environmental justice
  • From neoliberalism to nationalism: Resource extraction in the age of Evo
  • Clashing cosmologies and constitutional contradictions
  • Cuiabá under Morales
  • Evo's double game on the environment?
  • Conclusion: Reconsidering development, indigenous rights, and the environment.

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