Territorial disputes over nature in the ecuadorian High Amazon

Abstract

The expansion of neoliberal capitalism, as well as the imposition of the values ​​of the capitalist system, entails the reordering of States, global economic blocks, legal apparatuses and spatial organization. In Ecuador, the reorganization of space responds to the various projects that the State considers necessary for economic growth and the modernization of productive sectors, including: oil, mining, hydroelectric plants and deforestation. As a whole, this series of works aims to generate commercial exchange networks and exercise control in areas that are on the periphery; but which, at the same time, constitute the center of the capitalist economy. The present work presents a series of reflections on the territorial disputes that occur in the reordering of the Amazonian space, divided into four sections: the first discusses the relationship of capital and the crossroads of the Amazonian peoples; The second addresses the role of the State and the Amazonian indigenous peoples; The third takes up the discussion on capital and the society-nature tension; and the fourth presents an analysis of the precariousness of work and the Amazonian indigenous peoples.