TY - JOUR
T1 - Post-agrarian aspirations
T2 - Tourism and rural politics in Ecuador
AU - Lyall, Angus
AU - Colloredo-Mansfeld, Rudi
AU - Quick, Joe
PY - 2020/1/2
Y1 - 2020/1/2
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2019.1675610
U2 - 10.1080/02255189.2019.1675610
DO - 10.1080/02255189.2019.1675610
M3 - Article
SN - 2158-9100
VL - 41
SP - 92
EP - 109
JO - Canadian Journal of Development Studies
JF - Canadian Journal of Development Studies
IS - 1
ER -