Hi All, My book, Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador <https://www.dukeupress.edu/resource-radicals>, is out with Duke University Press and covers topics of interest to many on this list (brief description below). It's also on sale with the rest of the catalogue at 50% off, using code FALL2020. And, you can download and read the introduction on the book's website, linked to above.
Yours warmly, Thea -- Thea Riofrancos (she/her) Assistant Professor of Political Science, Providence College Fellow, Radcliffe Institute (2020-2021) Fellow, Carnegie Corporation (2020-2022) http://www.theariofrancos.com/ *Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador * In 2007, the left came to power in Ecuador. In the years that followed, the “twenty-first-century socialist” government and a coalition of grassroots activists came to blows over the extraction of natural resources. Each side declared the other a perversion of leftism and the principles of socioeconomic equality, popular empowerment, and anti-imperialism. In *Resource Radicals*, Thea Riofrancos unpacks the conflict between these two leftisms: on the one hand, the administration's resource nationalism and focus on economic development; and on the other, the anti-extractivism of grassroots activists who condemned the government's disregard for nature and indigenous communities. In this archival and ethnographic study, Riofrancos expands the study of resource politics by decentering state resource policy and locating it in a field of political struggle populated by actors with conflicting visions of resource extraction. She demonstrates how Ecuador's commodity-dependent economy and history of indigenous uprisings offer a unique opportunity to understand development, democracy, and the ecological foundations of global capitalism. “*Resource Radicals* is an insightful and ultimately optimistic interpretation of social mobilization around natural resource extraction in Ecuador. Thea Riofrancos eschews simple resource curse theory, viewing mobilization as a potential pathway toward more productive modes of governing extractive industry. Sensitive to both anti-extractivist and ‘Pink Tide’ approaches to resource extraction, she offers a nuanced analysis of resource politics and the complex challenges facing regimes that seek to govern the subsoil for progressive change.” — Anthony Bebbington, coauthor of *Governing Extractive Industries: Politics, Histories, Ideas* “This is a valuable, sensitive, and generous study of the new shapes that left politics has taken in the twenty-first century as crises of ecology and inequality swirl together. It's an essential basis for understanding the challenges ahead.” — Jedediah Purdy, author of *This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth* "[Riofranco's] scholarship is an example of internationalist solidarity in critical practice, the kind to which we may all aspire, and to which our current moment demands." — Hilary Goodfriend, *Jacobin Magazine* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/CAKw%3DA8eiPBYNR-MT7%2BaWFVCtK83bXYjOf%2BUeOXowQmW_arBnFg%40mail.gmail.com.
