Disputas Territoriales por la Naturaleza en la Alta Amazonía Ecuatoriana

The expansion of neoliberal capitalism, as well as the imposition of the values of the capitalist system, entails the reorganization of states, global economic blocs, legal apparatuses, and spatial organization. In Ecuador, the reorganization of space responds to the various projects the state considers necessary for economic growth and the modernization of productive sectors, including oil, mining, hydroelectric dams, and deforestation. Collectively, this series of works aims to generate commercial exchange networks and exert control over areas that are on the periphery but, at the same time, constitute the center of the capitalist economy. This work presents a series of reflections on the territorial disputes that arise in the reorganization of Amazonian space, divided into four sections: the first discusses the relationship between capital and the crossroads of the Amazonian peoples; the second addresses the role of the state and the Amazonian indigenous peoples; the third resumes the discussion on capital and the society-nature tension; and the fourth presents an analysis of the precariousness of work and the Amazonian indigenous peoples.