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Devastadora inversión
Se analizan 17 demandas de empresas transnacionales contra el Estado ecuatoriano, basadas en los Tratados Bilaterales de Inversión (TBI) suscritos con Estados Unidos, Canadá, España, Francia, Bolivia y Argentina. Estas demandas son presentadas en tribunales internacionales de arbitraje, como el CIADI, que en la mayoría de las veces resolvieron a favor de las empresas. Las sentencias de los árbitros se traducen en pagos millonarios que debe realizar el Ecuador, incluso en los casos en los que se da la razón, a cuenta de los costos procesales y los honorarios de los abogados. Estos montos generalmente superan con creces las inversiones realizadas; constituyen una extracción de fondos públicos que se suma a la serie de efectos que estos capitales provocan en los territorios, ampliando las fronteras extractivas y violando los derechos humanos, colectivos y de la naturaleza. Sin embargo, todo esto podría empeorar, pues ya se anuncia una nueva oleada de tratados de inversión, porque lo que está en juego es garantizar la continuidad de los negocios.
El festín minero del siglo XXI
El propósito de los autores con este libro es brindar un análisis crítico desde criterios que cruzan elementos de historia económica, derecho y de economía política. Demostramos cómo la megaminería no representará un boom económico, sino solo un triste capítulo más de la condena extractivista del Ecuador. Este modelo imperante condena al país a una perpetua reedición de la “maldición de la abundancia” que envuelve a quienes son atraídos por los cánticos de sirena del extractivismo. Una maldición que genera múltiples patologías, entre otras: enormes desigualdades en la distribución de la riqueza y una pobreza que afecta a amplios sectores; heterogeneidad estructural de un aparato productivo que combina sectores atrasados y modernos escasamente encadenados entre sí y con las actividades de exportación; falta de una adecuada integración entre las diversas regiones del país; autoritarismo y mal manejo administrativo del Estado; escasas inversiones en políticas sociales; carencia de planificación económica y de estrategias sustentadas en diferentes soberanías; corrupción generalizada.
The Labor of Extraction in Latin America
A 2024 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title Natural resource extraction and primary commodity export remain persistent features of the Latin American economy. This edited volume traces the power of labor in extractive sectors in Latin America starting in the 1980s and shows how labor shapes national export sectors, economies, politics, and societies more broadly. Kristin Ciupa and Jeffery R. Webber bring together a team of international experts who look at labor in several extractive sectors—including oil and gas, mining and agriculture, and migrant labor. They present a variety of viewpoints and case studies, exploring themes of the strategic organizing potential of extractive worker...
Posdesarrollo
Este libro retoma el tema del desarrollo en América Latina. Enriquece el debate desatado desde fines de los años 40, y en especial recoge las recientes y crecientes críticas al desarrollo con discurso ideológico de dominación del capitalismo. Los fracasos, aprendizajes y reflexiones colectivas acumuladas, que impulsaron y siguen impulsando vigorosas movilizaciones sociales, abren la puerta para nuevos enfoques. Es hora de recuperar las importantes experiencias centenarias de los pueblos originarios sobre el bien común o buen vivir, la reciprocidad y la relación armónica entre la sociedad y la naturaleza. En el contexto de tantas pandemias desatadas por la lógica de acumulación capitalista, este libro -con textos profundos y provocadores- presenta varios enfoques pertinentes por la coyuntura actual, por su aporte para mirar el futuro del mudo, por sus visiones sobre las potencialidades y contradicciones de esta construcción colectiva, y por sus potentes elementos destinados a construir otros futuros orientados por horizontes de vida digna para los seres humanos y los seres no humanos.
Handbook on Development and Social Change
This Handbook provides an accessible critical review of the complex issues surrounding development and social change today. With chapters from recognized experts, examining economic, political and social aspects, and covering key topics and developing regions, it goes beyond current theory and sets out the debates which will shape an approach better suited to the modern world.
From the Pandemic to Utopia
The coronavirus pandemic forces us to rethink our contemporaneity. It has brought to the surface dimensions of human fragility that partially contradict the euphoria and human hubris of the fourth industrial revolution (artificial intelligence). It has also aggravated the social inequality and racial discrimination that characterize our societies. The book argues that the virus, rather than an enemy, must be viewed as a pedagogue. It is trying to teach us that the deep causes of the pandemic lie in our dominant mode of production and consumption. The systemic overload of natural resources creates a metabolic rift between society and nature that destabilizes the habitat of wild animals and the vital cycles of natural regeneration whereby pandemics become an increasingly recurrent phenomenon. In trying to take seriously this lesson the book proposes a paradigmatic shift from the current civilizatory model to a new one guided by a more equitable relationship between nature and society and the priority of life, both human and non-human.
The Authoritarian Divide
In the context of the global decline of democracy, The Authoritarian Divide analyzes the tactics that populist leaders in Turkey, Venezuela, and Ecuador have used to polarize their countries. Political polarization is traditionally viewed as the result of competing left/right ideologies. In The Authoritarian Divide, Orçun Selçuk argues that, regardless of ideology, polarization is driven by dominant populist leaders who deliberately divide constituents by cultivating a dichotomy of inclusion and exclusion. This practice, known as affective leader polarization, stymies compromise and undermines the democratic process. Drawing on multiple qualitative and quantitative methodologies for support, as well as content from propaganda media such as public speeches, Muhtar Meetings, Aló Presidente, and Enlace Ciudadano, Selçuk details and analyzes the tactics used by three well-known populist leaders to fuel affective leader polarization: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey, Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, and Rafael Correa in Ecuador. Selçuk’s work provides a rubric for a better understanding of—and potential defense against—the rise in polarizing populism across the globe.
Regionalism, Development and the Post-Commodities Boom in South America
This book is a critical and multidisciplinary IPE of the unequal structures of South American development and uneven insertions in the global order following the decline of the commodities boom. The work explores the extent to which regional development issues are related to merely a decline of commodities ́ prices and/or to the resilience of the historical structures within an unequal world order. Thus, the authors seek first to analytically explore the regional issues beyond the formal limitations of North American and Eurocentric approaches. Secondly, they empirically scrutinize the complex dimensions of regional inequality and global insertions. Aspects analysed include economic reprimarization, the impact of China, development finance, trade and regional value chains, knowledge and technology, regional and transnational organised crime, cities, economic integration and the Global South.
Digital Activism, Community Media, and Sustainable Communication in Latin America
This book brings together academic and activist work on community media, feminist, decolonial, and Indigenous perspectives to digital activism, including Free and Open Communication in Latin America. The essays in this collection speak to major changes over the past decade that are reshaping digital media uses and practices. The case studies presented here question many commonly held assumptions around global media ownership, sustainability, and access relevant to countries beyond Latin American contexts.
The Development Dictionary @25
Few books in the history of Development Studies have had an impact like The Development Dictionary – A Guide to Knowledge as Power, which was edited by Wolfgang Sachs and published by Zed Books in 1992. The Development Dictionary was crucial in establishing what has become known as the Post-Development (PD) school. This volume is devoted to the legacy of The Development Dictionary and to discussing Post-Development. This book originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
