Structural limits to effective environmental activism: Post-neoliberal development, extractive imperative and authoritarianism in Ecuador

IF 1.7 Q2 GEOGRAPHY Geo-Geography and Environment Pub Date : 2024-08-19 DOI:10.1002/geo2.150
Murat Arsel, Lorenzo Pellegrini
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With the election of President Rafael Correa in the 2006 elections, Ecuadorian environmentalists became influential policymaking actors. Agenda-setting successes were followed by their decisive contribution to determining legislative content and its passing. However, the moment of alliance between environmentalists and Correa proved to be temporary. Environmentalists returned to a more adversarial posture in relation to the state and its approach to constructing a post-neoliberal development model that relied on the intensification of primary commodity extraction. Their efficacy in shaping environmental policy making and implementation declined and their activities against oil and mining extraction were met by increasingly authoritarian responses by the state. Structural constraints emerging from the global political economy of environment and development were ultimately decisive in the rise of authoritarianism and the reversal of the agenda of the environmentalists.

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有效环境行动主义的结构限制:厄瓜多尔的后自由主义发展、采掘需求和专制主义
拉斐尔-科雷亚(Rafael Correa)总统在 2006 年大选中当选后,厄瓜多尔环保人士成为具有影响力的政策制定者。在成功制定议程之后,他们又为确定立法内容和通过立法做出了决定性的贡献。然而,事实证明,环保主义者与科雷亚之间的联盟只是暂时的。环保主义者重新回到了与国家及其构建后新自由主义发展模式的方法(该模式依赖于初级产品的强化开采)的对抗姿态。他们在影响环境政策的制定和实施方面的效力下降,他们反对石油和矿业开采的活动遭到了国家日益专制的回应。全球环境与发展政治经济中出现的结构性制约因素最终决定了专制主义的兴起和环保主义者议程的逆转。
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期刊介绍: Geo is a fully open access international journal publishing original articles from across the spectrum of geographical and environmental research. Geo welcomes submissions which make a significant contribution to one or more of the journal’s aims. These are to: • encompass the breadth of geographical, environmental and related research, based on original scholarship in the sciences, social sciences and humanities; • bring new understanding to and enhance communication between geographical research agendas, including human-environment interactions, global North-South relations and academic-policy exchange; • advance spatial research and address the importance of geographical enquiry to the understanding of, and action about, contemporary issues; • foster methodological development, including collaborative forms of knowledge production, interdisciplinary approaches and the innovative use of quantitative and/or qualitative data sets; • publish research articles, review papers, data and digital humanities papers, and commentaries which are of international significance.
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