Suzana Sawyer: 2 books
Crude Chronicles
Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2004
Ecuador is the third-largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the western United States. As the source of this oil, the Ecuadorian Amazon has borne the far-reaching social and environmental consequences of a growing U.S. demand for petroleum and the dynamics of economic globalization it necessitates....
by Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau, Suzana Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2004
The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest. The slogan “Save the Rain Forest!”—emblazoned on glossy posters of tall trees wreathed in vines and studded with monkeys and parrots—promotes the popular image of a...