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Oil Injustice
Resisting and Conceding a Pipeline in Ecuador
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2011
Summary
Oil Injustice examines the mobilization efforts of four communities with different oil histories in response to the construction of an oil pipeline. Using multiple sites in Ecuador as case studies, Patricia Widener examines the efforts of grassroots groups, non-governmental organizations, activist mayors, and transnational advocates that mobilized to redefine the country's oil path and to represent the voice of many local communities and organizations that sought to offer an alternative to the nation's oil dependency and to the use of its oil wealth. These groups generated divergent and at times rival reactions to the pipeline, though at their core, the multiple campaigns developed from a shared history and awareness of a number of marginalized communities and degraded environments in areas most important to the oil process. Widener shows that global environmental justice demands are bound within a capitalist political system, where community activists, national NGOs and their international allies are forced to seek local change rather than attempt to defeat a disabling and unequal system.
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Edition
1/2011
Copyright Year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-0861-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-0863-6
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
376
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Preface No access
Chapter 1. Oil Disasters and Conflicts No access Pages 1 - 37
Chapter 2. Lago Agrio: Community-Driven Oil Justice No access Pages 38 - 69
Chapter 3. Quito’s NGOs: Realizing an Environmental Fund No access Pages 70 - 124
Chapter 4. Mindo: Oil and Tourism May Mix No access Pages 125 - 177
