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Author Martínez Novo, Carmen, 1966- author.

Title Undoing multiculturalism : resource extraction and indigenous rights in Ecuador / Carmen Martínez Novo.

Publication Info. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Pitt Latin American series
Pitt Latin American series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "President Rafael Correa (2007-2017) led the Ecuadoran Citizens' Revolution that claimed to challenge the tenets of neoliberalism and the legacies of colonialism. The Correa administration promised to advance Indigenous and Afro-descendant rights and redistribute resources to the most vulnerable. In many cases, these promises proved to be hollow. Using two decades of ethnographic research, Undoing Multiculturalism examines why these intentions did not become a reality, and how the Correa administration undermined the progress of Indigenous people. A main complication was pursuing independence from multilateral organizations in the context of skyrocketing commodity prices, which caused a new reliance on natural resource extraction. Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and other organized groups resisted the expansion of extractive industries into their territories because they threatened their livelihoods and safety. As the Citizens' Revolution and other "Pink Tide" governments struggled to finance budgets and maintain power, they watered down subnational forms of self-government, slowed down land redistribution, weakened the politicized cultural identities that gave strength to social movements, and reversed other fundamental gains of the multicultural era."--Publisher description.
Contents Introduction. Undoing Multiculturalism -- Being Indigenous in Ecuador -- Dispensing and Curtailing Rights through Policy and Practice -- The Minimization of Indigenous Numbers and the Fragmentation of Civil Society -- Creating and Dismantling Intercultural Bilingual Education -- Anthropology and Indigenous Peoples: Collaborations and Estrangements -- The Salesian Missions: Navigating Neoliberalism and Nationalist-Extractivism with the Indigenous Movement -- Ventriloquism, Racism, and the Politics of Decolonial Scholarship -- Conclusion. Neoliberalism, Nationalist-Extractivism, and Racial Formations in Ecuador.
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Subject Correa, Rafael.
Correa, Rafael.
Presidents -- Ecuador.
Presidents.
Ecuador.
Ecuador -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Government relations.
Indians of South America.
Indigenous peoples -- Ecuador.
Indigenous peoples.
HISTORY / General.
Indians of South America -- Government relations.
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 0822946637 9780822946632 (OCoLC)1191708859
ISBN 9780822988083 (electronic book)
0822988089 (electronic book)
0822946637
9780822946632