The Oil Amazon Subregion: Colonization, Conflicts, Extraction and Local Identities

Authors: Trujillo P*, Rivadeneira C and Montalvo PT

DOI: 10.23880/aeoaj-16000226

Volume 7, Issue 1

Abstract

The northern region of the Amazon of Ecuador is known as the oil subregion, an ecological space that represents the main development and modernity project executed by the State. Strategy that integrated vast areas of humid forests into a model of progress, modernity and global markets. This way of imagining the jungle and its inhabitants legitimized abusive intervention practices, forms of exploitation of nature and a chaotic territorial occupation, however, it determined a particular identity of the Amazonian settler-peasant. Competition for resources and territories has generated multiple social and environmental conflicts and violent encounters with native populations.

Keywords: Oil Sub-Region; Colonization; Extraction; Identities

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