Ethnographic study of indigenous opposition to processes of economic globalization, arguing that neoliberal economic reforms both provoked a crisis of governance and created the conditions for a disruptive indigenous movement in Ecuador.

Acknowledgements xi
A Note on Names xii
Opening 1
I NATIONAL NARRATIVES
1. Amazonian Imaginaries 27
2. Crude Excesses 57
II. PETROLEUM POLITICS
3. Neoliberal Ironies 91
4. Corporate Antipolitics 118
III. RACED RELATITIES
5. Contested Terrain 149
6. Liberal Legal-Scapes 182
Closing: A Plurinational Space 211
Notes 225
Acronyms 251
Glossary 253
Bibliography 255
Index 277

Suzana Sawyer is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis.