Rents, knowledge and neo-structuralism: transforming the productive matrix in Ecuador

Purcell, Thomas; Fernandez, Nora; Martinez, Estefania

doi:10.1080/01436597.2016.1166942

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“…In the case of the Millennium Cities, the sustained collapse of the oil price that began in 2014 has signalled the abrupt disappearance of the obscure forces sustaining this illusion. Across the continent, post-neoliberalism is in crisis (Purcell 2017;Wilson and Bayon 2017c), and as this paper goes to press in May 2017, the Ecuadorian economy is still struggling to escape from a prolonged recession (El Comercio 2017). Of the 200 Millennium Cities planned for the Amazon, only Pañacocha and Playas de Cuyabeno have been completed.…”

Section: Between Two Fantasies … the Beachmentioning

confidence: 92%

Potemkin Revolution: Utopian Jungle Cities of 21^st Century Socialism

Wilson

Jiménez²

2017

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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 appropriation of natural resources without the dispossession of the peasantry. Drawing on extensive field research, we argue that they are better understood as a simulation of urban modernity that is symptomatic of the predominance of ground rent in South American capitalism, and which conceals the violent repression of an autonomous indigenous project of petroleum‐based modernization. The original accumulation of 21st century socialism can therefore be interpreted as a “fantasy of origins”, which functions to reproduce the primitive accumulation of capital.

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Section: Between Two Fantasies … the Beachmentioning

confidence: 92%

Potemkin Revolution: Utopian Jungle Cities of 21^st Century Socialism

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Jiménez²

2017

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“…In 2013 cocoa represented US$500 million in foreign exchange earnings for Ecuador, an extremely important stream of revenue for a dollarised economy without the ability to devalue or print money (Purcell et al. ). The significance of foreign exchange earnings emerged as central to the institutional and class alliances—the exporters, intermediaries and commercial interests formed around the cocoa chamber of commerce (ANECACAO)—that coalesce around primary exports.…”

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The Value of Rents: Global Commodity Chains and Small Cocoa Producers in Ecuador

2018

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Drawing on the Marxian theory of ground rent, this paper develops an analysis of "global commodity chains" (GCCs) with agrarian roots. There is an acknowledgement that the concentrated downstream governance of primary commodity-based GCCs has created a set of "asymmetrical" power relations which blocks the transmission of value upstream towards small producers. This paper argues that this research under-specifies what is meant by value and rent, and in doing so marginalises the analysis of value production before its journey through inter-firm relations. We demonstrate the importance of theorising the value constitution of commodities produced on the land and the forces that contest the payment of ground rent and thereby shape the geography of GCCs. Based on empirical research conducted around Ecuador's "post-neoliberal" cocoa re-activation plan, we identify the class politics and production mechanisms through which value and rent escapes the hands of a stratified network of small owner producers. Resumen: Este art ıculo desarrolla un an alisis sobre "cadenas globales de mercanc ıas" (CGM) con ra ıces agrarias utilizando la teor ıa marxista de la renta de la tierra. Existe un reconocimiento de que la gobernanza de las CGM primarias concentrada en el procesamiento ha creado una serie de relaciones de poder "asim etricas" que bloquean la transmisi on de valor hacia pequeños productores agrarios. El art ıculo plantea que esta aserci on sub-especifica lo que se entiende por valor y renta y que, al hacerlo, marginaliza el an alisis de la producci on de valor antes de su recorrido a trav es de las relaciones inter-firmas. Demostramos la importancia de teorizar la constituci on del valor de las mercanc ıas producidas en la tierra y las fuerzas que impugnan el pago de la renta de la tierra y dan de este modo forma a la geograf ıa de las CGM. Sobre la base de investigaci on emp ırica realizada alrededor del plan 'post-neoliberal' de Ecuador para la reactivaci on del cacao, identificamos las pol ıticas de clase y los mecanismos de producci on a trav es de los cuales el valor y la renta se escapan de las manos de una red estratificada de pequeños productores propietarios agrarios.

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“…However, Correa subsequently filtered such radical conceptions of buen vivir through legislation, new institutions, and presidential decrees that sought to institutionalise buen vivir as a mainstream development paradigm. As a doctor of development economics, Correa drew from the neoinstitutional theories of Joseph Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs, and Ha‐Joon Chang (Webber, ), as well as neostructural thought from the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Leiva, ; Purcell, Fernández and Martínez, ) to redefine the state's purpose as a provider of goods and services in the social sphere and of capital investment in the economic sphere.…”

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Development, Citizenship, and Everyday Appropriations of Buen Vivir: Ecuadorian Engagement with the Changing Rhetoric of Improvement

Lyall

Colloredo‐Mansfeld

Rousseau

2018

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The Ecuadorian state frames its development interventions in infrastructure and human capital as advances in buen vivir or 'good living'. This paper reports ethnographic research that draws attention to everyday appropriations of state discourses on buen vivir in the Amazon and Andes. Non-state actors in marginalised communities often use state discourses strategically in engagements and negotiations with state actors. We argue that uses of official versions of buen vivir discourse often reflect such strategic appropriations of state idioms, rather than subjective commitment to state-led development and official notions of buen vivir.

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Rents, knowledge and neo-structuralism: transforming the productive matrix in Ecuador

Cited by 31 publications

References 29 publications

Potemkin Revolution: Utopian Jungle Cities of 21^st Century Socialism

Potemkin Revolution: Utopian Jungle Cities of 21^st Century Socialism

The Value of Rents: Global Commodity Chains and Small Cocoa Producers in Ecuador

Development, Citizenship, and Everyday Appropriations of Buen Vivir: Ecuadorian Engagement with the Changing Rhetoric of Improvement

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Rents, knowledge and neo-structuralism: transforming the productive matrix in Ecuador

Cited by 31 publications

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Potemkin Revolution: Utopian Jungle Cities of 21st Century Socialism

Potemkin Revolution: Utopian Jungle Cities of 21st Century Socialism

The Value of Rents: Global Commodity Chains and Small Cocoa Producers in Ecuador

Development, Citizenship, and Everyday Appropriations of Buen Vivir: Ecuadorian Engagement with the Changing Rhetoric of Improvement

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