What is it about?

Why is it that so many people think that violence is an inherent human character? Where these people think that violence is part of being human, my research contributes the idea that capitalism is the source of much of violence, and the contest and competition created during the formation of resource territories is fundamental source of violence. I make my argument drawing on an especially violence place, the Yasuni forests of Ecuador, where rubber and oil are produced in very violent capitalist systems.

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Why is it important?

With an understand of the role of capitalism in creating violence, we can begin to find new way of economic and resource production that are not capitalist, and so do not depend on violence and exploiting human and non human beings.

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After more than a decade of researching Yasuni, I found myself in a place where I thought I could contribute an discussion this place that could illuminate it.

David Gilbert
University of California

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This page is a summary of: Territorialization in a closing commodity frontier: The Yasuní rainforests of West Amazonia, Journal of Agrarian Change, December 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/joac.12227.
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