Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador (Radical Amricas)

“Resource Radicals is an insightful and ultimately optimistic interpretation of social mobilization around natural resource extraction in Ecuador. Thea Riofrancos eschews simple resource curse theory, viewing mobilization as a potential pathway toward more productive modes of governing extractive industry. Sensitive to both anti-extractivist and ‘Pink Tide’ approaches to resource extraction, she offers a nuanced analysis of resource politics and the complex challenges facing regimes that seek to govern the subsoil for progressive change.” -- Anthony Bebbington, coauthor of, Governing Extractive Industries: Politics, Histories, Ideas