Amelia Fiske’s ethnography, Reckoning with Harm: The Toxic Relation of Oil in Amazonia, widens and deepens details of Ecuador’s highly controversial, post-1960s, Amazon oil development.
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Early Amazonian trade and transportation generally floated along the vast lower riverine system or was trekked on backs across many rapidly moving headwaters. In the mid- to late- 20th century, the first roads opened, leading largely to resource extraction, not…
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Recently, the Amazon and its indigenous residents have become hot issues, metaphorically as well as climatically. News stories around the world have documented raging and relatively…
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Resource Radicals provides ethnographic detail that contextualizes broad, and often confusing, social and political movements common in Latin America. The book focuses largely on
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The small indigenous Mayagna community of Awas Tingni in the interior forest of Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast made legal history in the 1990s when they faced an incursion by an international lumber company. The community mapped its land claims and brought a case…