In petro-states, the governance of flows of oil and oil money is vital to state legitimacy (eg,
regulations, contracts with companies, social compensation in sites of oil extraction). This …

This ethnographic study examines post-agrarian aspirations and rural politics in Ecuador.
After decades of urban outmigration under a neoliberal agrarian order, many rural places …

Studies often suggest that the thrust of peasant politics is the advancement of autonomous
family farming. Such studies seem remote in rural places where migration, pluriactivity, and …

A qualitative study of the main characteristics of sumak kawsay (buen vivir, living well/good
life) in the Ecuadorian Amazon shows that it has four constitutive elements of which a …

Las comunidades amazónicas adoptan diversas posiciones políticas en relación con el
extractivismo. En tales posiciones influyen las diversas historias previas de encuentro y …

Guided by the Buen Vivir (good living) developmental philosophy, Alianza PAIS, Ecuador's
leftist party in power since 2007, aims to 'urbanise'rural areas in order to decentralise …

Over the past decade, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chile have been buffeted by intensive
transformations. Political scientist Pascal Lupien here reveals how Indigenous political …

The volume is explicitly international in scope and comparative in design, emphasizing both
the differences and commonalties to be seen among contemporary authoritarian and …

Oil production in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon has facilitated the urbanization of some of
the world's most biodiverse rainforests. New highways into the jungle, snaking pipelines …

This thesis is an intervention in the discussions on the politics of being/knowing in
decolonial theory as it overlaps with curriculum studies, comparative education, and Latin …