Structural limits to effective environmental activism: Post‐neoliberal development, extractive imperative and authoritarianism in Ecuador
Murat Arsel,
Lorenzo Pellegrini
Abstract: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 … Show more
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