Suing ChevronTexaco

Sawyer, Suzana

doi:10.1515/9780822390114-043

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“…A full account of the case is beyond the scope of this article, but the lawsuit is well-researched. See (Kimmerling, 1996;Sawyer, 2002Sawyer, , 2009Sawyer, , 2022Valdivia, 2007;Davidov, 2010;Joseph, 2012). 5.…”

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“People are no longer quiet”: Ordinary environmental citizenship in Lago Agrio, Ecuador

Díaz-Combs

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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For years, residents in northeastern Ecuador's Amazonian city of Lago Agrio demanded the expansion of water and sanitation services to peri-urban neighborhoods. Community members regularly filed claims, made demands at town hall meetings, spoke directly to policymakers during neighborhood tours, and assembled an extensive quantitative and qualitative database on the everyday challenges of precarious access to water and sanitation. Their demands were clear: municipal and national governments must use state revenue to improve water and sanitation networks. Engaging an ordinary citizenship framework, this article forwards an interpretation of these actions as ordinary environmental citizenship. Residents dictate how they envisage the role of the Ecuadorian state through citizenship practices that respond to their community's environmental conditions. This article posits that the embodiment of socio-environmental citizenship represented in Lago Agrio is reproduced through relationships cultivated in every day, routine, ordinary experiences textured by a shared sense of insecure access to water and sanitation. Lago Agrians contest exclusion and demand the state use broad financial redistribution to improve and expand public water and sanitation infrastructure.

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“People are no longer quiet”: Ordinary environmental citizenship in Lago Agrio, Ecuador

Díaz-Combs

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…Tracking the refiguration of oil development through capitalist logics in the 1990s (Sawyer, 2004), scholars have underscored central concerns around territorial displacement and institutional corruption that emerged in relation to extraction (Gerlach, 2003; Guzmán-Gallegos, 2012). Since the inception of the Aguinda lawsuit in 1993, much of this scholarship has pivoted around struggles over health, human rights, and political organizing in relation to oil (Beristain et al, 2009; Bustamante, 2007; Kimerling, 2006; San Sebastián and Córdoba, 2000; Sawyer, 2008; Valdivia, 2007). Others have worked in conjunction with groups like Frente de Defensa de la Amazonía to scientifically demonstrate the links between environmental contamination and harm to human health in the Amazon (Hurtig and San Sebastián, 2004; San Sebastián and Córdoba, 2000, 2001).…”

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Dirty hands: The toxic politics of denunciation

Fiske

2018

Soc Stud Sci

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In September 2013, President Correa balanced himself on a felled log over an oil waste pit in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Extending a bare hand dripping with crude, he launched La Mano Sucia de Chevron campaign, demanding accountability for decades of contamination. This article explores the role of bodily knowledge in witnessing industrial contamination and struggles for environmental justice. Situating the mano sucia in the history of activism in the region, I show how the juxtaposition of different hands within the same motif reveals profoundly asymmetric relationships to the toxic entanglements that oil produces. Dirtied hands reveal the co-production of toxicity and power in extractive landscapes: At times throughout this article, the gesture calls for corporate accountability and distributive environmental justice, at other times, it reveals the systemic production of material, social and political distance between the accrual of benefit and the production of harm in an industrial-capitalist order. While drawing on the central role of bodily knowledges in apprehending environmental harm, I argue that bodily knowledges must also be examined for their specific relationships to forms of power and exploitation, and for their potential for appropriation by other parties - even when dedicated to condemning environmental injustice.

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Suing ChevronTexaco

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“People are no longer quiet”: Ordinary environmental citizenship in Lago Agrio, Ecuador

“People are no longer quiet”: Ordinary environmental citizenship in Lago Agrio, Ecuador

Dirty hands: The toxic politics of denunciation

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