Post-agrarian aspirations: Tourism and rural politics in Ecuador

Angus Lyall, Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld, Joe Quick

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Abstract

This ethnographic study examines post-agrarian aspirations and rural politics in Ecuador. After decades of urban outmigration under a neoliberal agrarian order, many rural places have witnessed efforts to develop local tourism economies as a possibility to transcend stigmatised agrarian livelihoods and to (re)constitute communities. We build on anthropological studies of aspiration to explore how visions of post-agrarian futures are shifting the actors, scales and terms of rural politics in the present. Through two case studies, we observe how state actors have come to re-inscribe their role within post-agrarian imaginaries, partially rewriting the terms of state legitimacy in rural places.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)92-109
JournalCanadian Journal of Development Studies
Volume41
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Jan 2020

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