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- Title
Saving nature or performing sovereignty? Ecuador's initiative to 'keep oil on the ground' (Respond to this article at ).
- Authors
Davidov, Veronica
- Abstract
The Yasuní-ITT proposal by the government of Ecuador to 'keep the oil in the ground' in the untouched, highly biodiverse Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini sector of Yasuni National Park in exchange for compensatory 3.6 billion dollars from the international community, has been interpreted and analyzed by academics and the media alike as a radical environmental intervention. In this article I argue that the ITT initiative it less of a radical environmental plan, and more of a performative articulation of post-IMF nationalism. I problematize the notion that the ITT initiative heralds a shift to a radical new environmental paradigm, and argue that it should be understood primarily as a critique of Ecuador's experience with foreign debt and neoliberal restructuring.
- Subjects
PARQUE Nacional Yasuni (Ecuador); ECUADOR; SOVEREIGNTY; UNITED Nations Development Programme; BIODIVERSITY; INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund; DEBT relief
- Publication
Anthropology Today, 2012, Vol 28, Issue 3, p12
- ISSN
0268-540X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8322.2012.00872.x