Reality of Dreams: Post-Neoliberal Utopias in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) - Softcover

Wilson, Japhy

 
9780300253429: Reality of Dreams: Post-Neoliberal Utopias in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0300253427 ISBN 13: 9780300253429
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

An exploration of radical megaprojects in the Ecuadorian Amazon, considering the fate of utopian fantasies under conditions of global capitalism

From 2007 to 2017, the “Citizens’ Revolution” launched an ambitious series of post-neoliberal megaprojects in the remote Amazonian region of Ecuador, including an interoceanic transport corridor, a world-leading biotechnology university, and a planned network of two hundred “Millennium Cities.” The aim was to liberate the nation from its ecologically catastrophic dependence on Amazonian oil reserves, while transforming its jungle region from a wild neoliberal frontier into a brave new world of “twenty-first-century socialism.” This book documents the heroic scale of this endeavor, the surreal extent of its failure, and the paradoxical process through which it ended up reinforcing the economic model that it had been designed to overcome. It explores the phantasmatic and absurd dimensions of the transformation of social reality under conditions of global capitalism, deconstructing the utopian fantasies of the state, and drawing attention to the eruption of insurgent utopias staged by those with nothing left to lose.

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Japhy Wilson is a lecturer in Human-Environment Interactions at Bangor University.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300253427
ISBN 13 
9780300253429
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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