“We Are All Indigenous!” Insurgent Universality on the Extractive Frontier
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This paper tells the inside story of a spontaneous uprising in the Ecuadorian Amazon in 2017, in which mestizo, Afro-descendant and Indigenous workers and communities confronted the combined forces of a multinational oil company and a militarized state. The paper documents a rapidly evolving battle that achieved a remarkable victory, and bears witness to the fleeting emergence of an insurgent form of political universality. It suggests that the decolonial dichotomy between top-down universalism and a bottom-up pluriverse should be replaced by an approach that is attentive to manifestations of universality performed by subaltern subjects in their confrontations with extractive capital.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 120-137 |
| Journal | Capitalism Nature Socialism |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| Publication status | Published - 30 May 2022 |
| Externally published | Yes |