“We Are All Indigenous!” Insurgent Universality on the Extractive Frontier
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In: Capitalism Nature Socialism, Vol. 33, No. 3, 30.05.2022, p. 120-137.
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T1 - “We Are All Indigenous!” Insurgent Universality on the Extractive Frontier
AU - Wilson, Japhy
PY - 2022/5/30
Y1 - 2022/5/30
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1080/10455752.2022.2081926
DO - 10.1080/10455752.2022.2081926
M3 - Article
VL - 33
SP - 120
EP - 137
JO - Capitalism Nature Socialism
JF - Capitalism Nature Socialism
IS - 3
ER -