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Life in Oil
- Cofan Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia
Engelsk Paperback
Life in Oil
- Cofan Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia
Engelsk Paperback

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Oil is one of the world’s most important commodities, but few people know how its extraction affects the residents of petroleum-producing regions. In the 1960s, the Texaco corporation discovered crude in the territory of Ecuador’s indigenous CofÁn nation. Within a decade, Ecuador had become a member of OPEC, and the CofÁn watched as their forests fell, their rivers ran black, and their bodies succumbed to new illnesses. In 1993, they became plaintiffs in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit that aims to compensate them for the losses they have suffered. Yet even in the midst of a tragic toxic disaster, the CofÁn have refused to be destroyed. While seeking reparations for oil’s assault on their lives, they remain committed to the survival of their language, culture, and rainforest homeland. Life in Oil presents the compelling, nuanced story of how the CofÁn manage to endure at the center of Ecuadorian petroleum extraction. Michael L. Cepek has lived and worked with CofÁn people for more than twenty years. In this highly accessible book, he goes well beyond popular and academic accounts of their suffering to share the largely unknown stories that CofÁn people themselves create-the ones they tell in their own language, in their own communities, and to one another and the few outsiders they know and trust. Their words reveal that life in oil is a form of slow, confusing violence for some of the earth’s most marginalized, yet resilient, inhabitants.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
302
ISBN-13:
9781477315088
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
147731508X
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Udg. Dato:
2 apr 2018
Længde:
27mm
Bredde:
225mm
Højde:
143mm
Forlag:
University of Texas Press
Oplagsdato:
2 apr 2018
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