5. Water for Gold: Confronting State and Corporate Mining Discourses in Azuay, Ecuador

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
5. 1. Political Ecologies of the Subsoil 1
6. 2. New Geographies of Extractive Industries in Latin America 27
7. 3. Nature and Nation: Hydrocarbons, Governance, and the Territorial Logics of “Resource Nationalism” in Bolivia 67
8. 4. Rocks, Rangers, and Resistance: Mining and Conservation Frontiers in the Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru 91
9. 5. Water for Gold: Confronting State and Corporate Mining Discourses in Azuay, Ecuador 119
10. 6. Territorial Transformations in El Pangui, Ecuador: Understanding How Mining Conflict Affects Territorial Dynamics, Social Mobilization, and Daily Life 149
11. 7. Hydrocarbon Conflicts and Indigenous Peoples in the Peruvian Amazon: Mobilization and Negotiation along the Río Corrientes 173
12. 8. Synergistic Impacts of Gas and Mining Development in Bolivia’s Chiquitanía: The Significance of Analytical Scale 197
13. 9. Natural Resources in the Subsoil and Social Conflicts on the Surface: Perspectives on Peru’s Subsurface Political Ecology 223
14. 10. Anatomies of Conflict: Social Mobilization and New Political Ecologies of the Andes 241
15. 11. Conclusions 267
16. Bibliography 289
17. Contributors 327
18. Index 333