Political ecology, pipelines, and the conduits of resistance -- The neoliberal turn and the rise of resistance -- Green-stamping a pipeline -- Struggling for transparency and fairness -- Struggling for consultation, compensation, and territory -- Struggling for environmental justice -- From neoliberalism to nationalism: Resource extraction in the age of Evo -- Clashing cosmologies and constitutional contradictions -- Cuiabá under Morales -- Evo's double game on the environment? -- Conclusion: Reconsidering development, Indigenous rights, and the environment
Summary
Throughout the Americas, a boom in oil, gas, and mining development has pushed the extractive frontier deeper into Indigenous territories. Centering on a long-term study of Enron and Shell's Cuiabá pipeline, this book traces the struggles of Bolivia's Indigenous peoples for self-determination over their lives and territories. In his analysis of their response to this encroaching development, the author also sheds light on surprising similarities between neoliberal reform and the policies of the nation's first Indigenous president, Evo Morales
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-283) and index