Imagined Borders: (Un)Bounded Spaces of Oil Extraction and Indigenous Sociality in “Post-Neoliberal” Ecuador

In this paper, we analyze state practices of border-making through an ethnographic focus on Ecuadorian Amazonia and the Waorani, an Indigenous society, who, before sustained contact with the outside world began in 1958, possessed stark spatial and social borders often reinforced through warfare. Fol...

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Main Authors: Flora E. Lu, Néstor L. Silva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-06-01
Series:Social Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/4/2/434