The Uneven Territoriality of Extractive Politics

Campaigns to block oil drilling in the amazons yasuni national park emerged after corea's proposal failed. In quenka, there was a really deep alliance made between of the local and provincial indigenous federation as well as urban environmentalists. And they had a strong enough coalition that they were able to stall an extractive mine near quenca which is still not happening. But both cases, you had appeals to scales and constituencies that exceed the territoriality of those directly affected by extraction or maybe expand the notion of what it means to be 'environmentally conscious'