Oil, Revolution, and Indigenous Citizenship in Ecuadorian Amazonia.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Acronyms -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: The Road to the Revolución Ciudadana -- Crude Entanglements in Ecuadorian Politics -- A Closer Look at Ecuador's Political Path -- Enter Rafael Correa -- The Revolución Ciudadana -- The Expenditures of the Revolución -- Black Gold in a Green Jewel -- The Case of the Waorani -- The Tagaeri and Taromenane -- Organization of the Book -- Note -- Bibliography -- Part I: Constructing the Revolución -- Chapter 2: In and Out of the Shadows of Citizenship -- Constitutional Visibilities -- Enacting the Unthinkable -- Pachakutik Uprisings -- The Plurinational State and Resistance to Neoliberal Transformations -- ONHAE: An Organization of Their Own -- Constitutional Invisibilities and Contradictions -- State Policy and PVI -- Inadequate by Design: The ZITT and the Possibilities for PVI as Citizens -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: The Habits of Oil Rule -- Oil Rule Before the Correa Administration -- Neoliberalizing the Oil Industry -- The Texaco/Chevron Lawsuit -- "Post-Neoliberal" Proposals -- The Correa Administration -- Buen Vivir as a Habit of Oil Rule -- The Question of Neoextractivism -- Note -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: The Problem of Poverty -- The Common Sense of Poverty -- The Good Sense: New Solutions to the Problem of Poverty -- Institutional Restructuring -- Transformed Institutions -- "For the People, Revolution" -- The Cat's Cradle of Good Sense -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II: Fissures in the Revolución -- Chapter 5: Oil as Risk in Waorani Territory -- Uneven Benefits: The Experiences of Tiwino and Gareno -- Tiwino -- Gareno -- The New Millennium -- Community Microeconomics -- Corporations, Communities, and Contention -- El Paro: The Road as Conduit, Threat, and Site of Contention.

Poverty Amid Plenty: Waorani Perceptions About Standards of Living -- Perceived Risks in Gareno -- Perceived Risks in Tiwino -- Two Development Projects, Two Very Different Outcomes -- Water Waste: A Failed, Exhausting Effort in Gareno -- Rippling Effects of Oil in an Infrastructural Project in Tiwino -- Gender and Oil -- Fallout from the Killings -- The Poverty of Development -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Neoextractivism and Its Contestation in Ecuador -- One of Many Communities in YNP -- Virtualism and the Yasuni-ITT Initiative -- The Origins, the End, and Continuing Trajectory of the Initiative -- The Talk of Oil and the Initiative -- Waorani Capital -- Yasunidos -- Consulta Popular -- Pending Questions -- A Return to Chevron: Mano Sucia -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Human Rights and People in Voluntary Isolation -- The Tagaeri -- The Taromenane -- The 2013 Killings and Subsequent Massacre -- Accounts of the Massacre -- Fallout from the Massacre -- Governmental About-Face -- The Incarceration of Waorani -- Incoherence and Human Rights -- Postscript: What About the Taromenane? -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: Oil Flux and Unrest -- La Revolución Avanza! -- Amendments to the 2008 Constitution -- The Emergence of Correismo? -- The State of Well-Being in 2015 -- The Near Future -- Bibliography -- Index.

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