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Resource Radicals: A Book Talk with Author Thea Riofrancos

Cover image of Thea Riofrancos's book
WHEN:
Thursday, March 25, 5:30pm7:00pm
 

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 extraction of natural resources. Each side declared the other a perversion of leftism and the principles of socioeconomic equality, popular empowerment, and anti-imperialism. In her book Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador (Duke University Press, 2020), Thea Riofrancos unpacks the conflict between these two leftisms: on the one hand, the administration’s resource nationalism and focus on economic development; and on the other, the anti-extractivism of grassroots activists who condemned the government’s disregard for nature and indigenous communities. Hear from the author in conversation with Alejandro Velsaco about Ecuador’s commodity-dependent economy and history of indigenous uprisings offer a unique opportunity to understand development, democracy, and the ecological foundations of global capitalism.

Presenters

Thea Riofrancos

Providence College

Alejandro Velasco

NYU Gallatin

 
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