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The Indigenous Right to Self-Determination in Extractivist Economies, by Marcela Torres-Wong, reviewed by Gavin O'Toole

Latin American Review of Books
Sep 06, 2023
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The Indigenous Right to Self-Determination in Extractivist Economies, Marcela Torres-Wong, 2023, Cambridge University Press

The resounding vote by Ecuadorians to stop the development of all new oilwells in the Amazonian Yasuní national park is an emphatic signal that indigenous people have steered the global debate on extractivism to an historic juncture.

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