Resource Extraction: In Conversation with Bret Gustafson and Thea Riofrancos

The Baffler has provided interview questions for Bret Gustafson, author of Bolivia in the Age of Gas and Thea Riofrancos, author of Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador. The authors discuss natural gas and oil extraction in Bolivia and Ecuador and the relationship between leftist governments and environmental activists, the difficulties of creating a non-extractivist socialist state in the context of global capitalism, and their critiques of the concept of the "resource curse." "Bolivia in the Age of Gas" and "Resource Radicals" are available now for 30% off:
https://www.dukeupress.edu/bolivia-in... (use code E20GSTFS)
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Read the transcript on The Baffler's website: https://thebaffler.com/latest/fueling...