In 2007, the left came to power in Ecuador. In the years that followed, the “twenty-first-
century socialist” government and a coalition of grassroots activists came to blows over the …

To date, much of the social science literature dealing with the extractive industries has been
dominated by debates over the so-called resource curse. According to its proponents …

Based on the 2011 Annual Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group Lecture, this
paper makes the case for a political ecology of the subsoil. Arguing that subsoil resources …

Over the last decades, many progressive Latin American regimes have repoliticized natural
resource extraction and forged an 'extractive imperative'. In this article, I critically engage …

In Ecuador, the recent introduction of mineral mining led to a conflictive debate on mining
and development, particularly the concept of Buen Vivir (good living). This article examines …

In an extractive economy with territorially uneven costs and benefits, who should decide the
fate of oil and mining projects: directly affected minorities or national citizenries? I reframe …

In this article, I explain the role that scientific studies play in shaping collaboration and
conflict over mining exploration in the Ecuadorian highlands. Toronto-based IAMGOLD …

En este artículo se argumenta cómo la producción de conocimiento se ha convertido en una
práctica central en los procesos de resistencia y oposición a proyectos mineros de gran …

In questioning the multiple positions of the stakeholders involved in the mining debate in
Ecuador, this paper offers an analytical framework to uncover the 'politics of scale'of mining …

The main objective of this paper is to show the relevance of a lack of or lower levels of overt
forms of conflict in the political ecology of mining extraction and to show the usefulness of a …