"Reality of Dreams" by Japhy Wilson

Reality of Dreams Post-Neoliberal Utopias in the Ecuadorian Amazon Japhy Wilson

Series:
Yale Agrarian Studies Series
Format:
Paperback
Publication date:
23 Nov 2021
ISBN:
9780300253429
Imprint:
Yale University Press
Dimensions:
304 pages: 216 x 140mm
Illustrations:
1 b-w illus.
Sales territories:
World

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What is the fate of utopian fantasies under conditions of global capitalism? From 2007 to 2017, the Citizens’ Revolution launched a series of post-neoliberal megaprojects to liberate Ecuador from its ecologically catastrophic dependence on Amazonian oil reserves. This book documents the heroic scale of this endeavor, the farcical extent of its failure, and the paradoxical process through which it ended up reinforcing the economic model that it had been designed to overcome.

Japhy Wilson is an independent scholar exploring the entanglement of space, power, and ideology in the politics of development. He teaches at King’s College London and is an honorary research fellow at the University of Manchester. He lives in Crete.

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