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"We Are All Indigenous!" Insurgent Universality on the Extractive Frontier.

Authors :
Wilson, Japhy
Source :
Capitalism, Nature, Socialism; Sep2022, Vol. 33 Issue 3, p120-137, 18p
Publication Year :
2022

Abstract

This paper tells the inside story of a spontaneous uprising in the Ecuadorian Amazon in 2017, in which mestizo, Afro-descendant and Indigenous workers and communities confronted the combined forces of a multinational oil company and a militarized state. The paper documents a rapidly evolving battle that achieved a remarkable victory, and bears witness to the fleeting emergence of an insurgent form of political universality. It suggests that the decolonial dichotomy between top-down universalism and a bottom-up pluriverse should be replaced by an approach that is attentive to manifestations of universality performed by subaltern subjects in their confrontations with extractive capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
10455752
Volume :
33
Issue :
3
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Capitalism, Nature, Socialism
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
160785682
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2022.2081926