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Author Kramarz, Teresa, author.

Title Populist moments and extractivist states in Venezuela and Ecuador : the people's oil? / Teresa Kramarz, Donald Kingsbury
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 118 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Palgrave pivot
Palgrave pivot.
Contents Chapter 1: The Peoples Oil? -- Chapter 2: The Limits of Populism as Causal Explanation -- Chapter 3: The Self.-Reinforcing Effects of the Extractive State -- Chapter 4: "The Devils Excrement" : Venezuela as the Prototypical Extractive State -- Chapter 5: The Citizens Revolution and the Failure of an Alternative Environmental Moment in Ecuador -- Chapter 6: Extractive States and Prospects for Environmental Action
Summary This book addresses the intersection of extractivism, populism, and accountability. Although populist politics are often portrayed as a driver of poor environmental governance, Populist Moments and Extractivist States identifies it as an intervening variable at best one that emerges in response to the accountability deficits of extractive states. Case studies in Venezuela for many, the prototypical petrostate and Ecuador which exchanged agribusiness dependency for oil decades later illustrate how extractive states are oriented by a colonial logic of export and service. This logic regulates state-society-nature relationships and circumscribes avenues for local stakeholders to hold public officials and extractive industries to account for environmental and human harms. Populist moments of the early 21st century across Latin America responded to these conditions, promising more equitable and sustainable futures. However, rather than reversing the technocracy, verticalism, and exclusion of the recent past, populist moments often intensified and legitimated them in the drive to maximize and distribute resource rents. The result has been cyclical, as populist moments of hope and rupture fall prey to the extractivist states they tried, and failed, to replace. Teresa Kramarz is Associate Professor in Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, Canada. Donald V Kingsbury is Assistant Professor in Latin American Studies and Political Science at the University of Toronto, Canada
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Populism -- Venezuela
Populism -- Ecuador
Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects -- Venezuela
Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects -- Ecuador
Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects
Politics and government
Populism
SUBJECT Venezuela -- Politics and government -- 1999- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001005282
Ecuador -- Politics and government -- 1984- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88002741
Subject Ecuador
Venezuela
Form Electronic book
Author Kingsbury, Donald V., author.
ISBN 9783030709631
3030709639