2017
DOI: 10.1111/anti.12345
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Potemkin Revolution: Utopian Jungle Cities of 21st Century Socialism

Abstract: This paper explores the entanglement of ideology and materiality in the production of the spaces of 21st century socialism. “Millennium Cities” are currently being constructed for indigenous communities throughout the Ecuadorian Amazon, with revenues derived from petroleum extracted within their territories. As iconic spatial symbols of the “Citizens’ Revolution”, the Millennium Cities would appear to embody “the original accumulation of 21st century socialism”—a utopian state ideology promising the collective… Show more

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“…Although these initiatives were undergirded by laudable ideals such as collective living, gender equality and the collapsing of the producer/consumer divide, these goals were oftentimes advanced by prioritising rationalism and functional zoning, resulting in reduced richness of social and spatial fabrics and absolutist totalities with formal and stylistic rules. Other works expressed discomfort with the complicity between utopian projects and the imposition of reason, order, surveillance and control, which gave rise to elitist veneer rather than mass empowerment (Coleman, 2005; Datta, 2015; Miles, 2007; Pinder, 2002, 2005; Wilson and Bayón, 2018). While these lessons in history must be learned, it does not entail the dismissal of the point that architecture is part of the “continual elaboration and invention of social action” (Coleman, 2005: 5).…”
Section: Urban Alienation and Architectural Interventionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although these initiatives were undergirded by laudable ideals such as collective living, gender equality and the collapsing of the producer/consumer divide, these goals were oftentimes advanced by prioritising rationalism and functional zoning, resulting in reduced richness of social and spatial fabrics and absolutist totalities with formal and stylistic rules. Other works expressed discomfort with the complicity between utopian projects and the imposition of reason, order, surveillance and control, which gave rise to elitist veneer rather than mass empowerment (Coleman, 2005; Datta, 2015; Miles, 2007; Pinder, 2002, 2005; Wilson and Bayón, 2018). While these lessons in history must be learned, it does not entail the dismissal of the point that architecture is part of the “continual elaboration and invention of social action” (Coleman, 2005: 5).…”
Section: Urban Alienation and Architectural Interventionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Today, residents continue to struggle with state actors in order to sustain the Millennium City, often with mixed sentiments, acknowledging both difficult conditions and marginally improved status and recognition as urbanising subjects. In this context, buen vivir becomes a tool not for realising modernising ideals or desires—nor ‘utopian fantasies’, as some argue (Wilson and Bayón, )—but rather for navigating already existing symbolic and material structures.…”
Section: Buen Vivir Government On the Amazonian Oil Frontiermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We can also signal neoliberal discourses in which community members couched their proposals to the state prior to the rise of Correa. In 2006, community leaders developed a proposal for an indigenous oil company that would be called ‘Alain Petrol’, along with technical and financial advisers from Ecuador and investors from the US and Canada (Lyall and Valdivia, ; Wilson and Bayón, ). Under a neoliberal paradigm that disparaged state intervention in economic and social spheres, advisers and community leaders argued that their company offered productive efficiency.…”
Section: Buen Vivir Government On the Amazonian Oil Frontiermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Many contemporary geographers have been keen to prove his point. Two out of five (80) of our papers contained ‘ethnographic’ elements as we heard from researchers questioning UK austerity policies by waiting for discounted supermarket goods (Kelsey et al, 2019), risking student disdain in North Korean classrooms to understand the local co-existence of socialist principles and capitalist practices (Wainwright et al, 2018), or scrambling ashore after arduous canoe journeys to see what petrochemical wealth has really done for indigenous Amazonians (Wilson, and Bayón, 2018). We found some at Spanish dinner parties listening to gay men discuss the surrogates they hoped would soon bear them children (Schurr and Militz, 2018) and others taking tea with UK prisoners (Richardson and Thieme, 2018).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…capitalist practices (Wainwright et al 2018), or scrambling ashore after arduous canoe journeys to see what petrochemical wealth has really done for indigenous Amazonians (Wilson, and Bayón, 2018). We found some at Spanish dinner parties listening to gay men discuss the surrogates they hoped would soon bear them children (Schurr and Militz, 2018) and others taking tea with UK prisoners (Richardson and Thieme, 2018).…”
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confidence: 97%