Livelihood alterations and indigenous innovators in the Ecuadorian Amazon

R Lalander, M Lembke, J Porsani - Alternautas, 2023 - diva-portal.org
This article approaches livelihood alterations in Indigenous communities of the Ecuadorian
Amazon as means of adaptation and resistance to socioenvironmental impacts brought …

Mining-free territories and decolonial theory: Evaluating the synergies in the Brazilian context

RM Vilani, B Milanez, MB Martins… - The Extractive Industries …, 2024 - Elsevier
We argue that mining-free territories (MFTs), a concept that has emerged in Brazil, may be a
community-based strategy in dialogue with decolonial theory to reduce mineral …

[HTML][HTML] Hg Pollution in Groundwater of Andean Region of Ecuador and Human Health Risk Assessment

I Passarelli, D Mora-Silva, M Jimenez-Gutierrez… - Resources, 2024 - mdpi.com
In Ecuador, illegal gold mining has led to significant environmental impacts, with the release
of harmful elements such as mercury (Hg) into the environment. Mercury, due to its physical …

The dirtiness of clean: Unearthing settler logics that sustain spatial woundings in the Capitalocene

EC Adams, B A. Varga - The Journal of Environmental Education, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, we first (re) trace the presence and absence of mining, metals and
extractionary practices, what we call MMEs, from environmental and sustainability curricular …

The Myth of Counter‐modern Ontologies: Indigenous People and the Modern Politics of Extractivism in Ecuador

C Tym - Development and Change, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Anti‐extractivist critique still positions Indigenous people as protagonists of counter‐modern
political sentiment, whether as opponents of modernity's processes of productive …

Prácticas ancestrales en tiempos de COVID-19: Reflexiones decoloniales desde tres comunidades Kichwa-Otavalos

R Lalander, P Ubidia - Revista Dialógica Intercultural, 2023 - revistas.umss.edu.bo
El argumento central del presente artículo es que en las periferias de la modernidad existen
prácticas y conocimientos muy valiosos para comprender el mundo y para el manejo de …

Un enfoque político-ecológico decolonial sobre casos emblemáticos de ecoturismo comunitario desde abajo: Experiencias Kichwa, Shuar y Tsáchila

R Lalander - Revista Dialógica Intercultural, 2023 - revistas.umss.edu.bo
Con inspiración teórica de la ecología política, perspectivas decoloniales y la
conceptualización de utopías reales, este estudio etnográfico y comparativo trata de las …