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Article: Crude chronicles: indigenous politics, multinational oil, and neoliberalism in Ecuador.(Book review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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- September 1, 2007
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SAWYER, SUZANA. Crude chronicles: indigenous politics, multinational oil, and neoliberalism in Ecuador. xii, 294 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. London, Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2004. [pounds sterling]16.95 (paper)
Suzana Sawyer's ethnography examines indigenous resistance to oil exploration in Ecuador's Pastaza province in the 1990s as 'opposition to globalization in its neoliberal guise' (p. 7). Petroleum exports provide Ecuador with 50 per cent of its state revenue and the United States with a third of its petroleum needs; one could call the two countries co-dependent. The drilling in Ecuador's Amazon (Oriente), however, comes at a high environmental and ...