Project Title: Extractivism & Women’s Resistance in the Ecuadorian Amazon
As we have seen increasingly in the past decade, addressing climate change is a deeply politically challenging issue. In the Americas alone, both right and left governments have created significant political and economic obstacles, including most egregiously the direct intensification of large-scale natural resource extraction, from petroleum and natural gas, to mineral, water, shale, and lumber to name a few. This intensification, however, has been met with resistance by affected populations. This project examines the rise of a new social movement centered on resistance to and rejection of extractivism, with a specific focus on one of the catalysts of this movement: Indigenous women activists in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Selected Publications and Talks:
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Angélica Maria Bernal. “Ecuador’s Dual Populisms: Neocolonial Extractivism, Violence, and Indigenous Resistance,” Thesis Eleven 164:1 (June 2021): 9-36. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F07255136211025220 and via Populism(s) Portal: https://thesiseleven.com/populisms-portal/
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Angélica M. Bernal. “Power, Powerlessness, and Petroleum: Indigenous Environmental Claims and the Limits of Transnational Law.” New Political Science 33: 2 (June 2011): 143-167.
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“Pachamama’s Rights, Climate Crisis, and the Decolonial Cosmos,” Invited Talk for The Concrete Universal Conference in honor of Seyla Benhabib, Yale University, December 14-15th, 2020.
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“Constitucionalismo, Refundación, y Mujeres Indígenas,” Seminario: Nueva Constitución y Género, Instituto de Asuntos Públicos, Universidad de Chile, Diciembre 9, 2020.
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“Pachamama’s Rights: The Rights of Nature and Indigenous Resistance in Ecuador,” The Feinberg Lectures, UMASS Amherst, November 8th, 2020.
