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The chapter examines four parallel stories that reveal the relative success of indigenous communities in defending their autonomy and examines how their territory is linked to their ability to mobilise external solidarity around the use of national and international legal instruments as effective shields to protect their rights. Considering the past decades of ecological history, it seems that of all the victims of this violence exercised in the Amazon region by economic sectors in collusion with the national Peruvian state, many Indigenous Peoples have been able to endure the aggression and secure some circumstantial victories. Through their political and cultural struggle, these groups have brought to the centre of national and international politics the ethical and environmental principles that should inform the relation of the rest of Peru with the Amazon.
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From website of Amazon Watch. https://amazonwatch.org. Accessed 10 December 2019.
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Loon LLC is an Alphabet Inc. subsidiary working on providing Internet access to rural and remote areas. The company uses high-altitude balloons in the stratosphere at an altitude of 18 km to 25 km tocreate an aerial wireless network.
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Taylor’s Bibliographic Essay at the end of the chapter is possibly one of the most complete lists of ethnohistorical references on the montaña available today.
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Free paraphrased quote from an unpublished manuscript by Chris Ebdon, Doctoral Candidate at Yale University, Newhaven, CT.
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Manifesto for a Post-Materialist Science (7–9 February 2014, Tucson, AZ), International Summit on Post-Materialist Science: Summary Report.
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Pueblo Originario Kichwa de Sarayaaku, Declaración. Kawsak Sacha- Selva Viviente, Ser Vivo y Consciente, Sujeto de Derewchos. Pueblo Originario Kichwa de Sarayaku, Puyo y Sarayaku, June 2018.
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Varese, S. (2021). The Indigenous Politics of Belonging: Opposing Neo-liberal Extractivism with Ethical Cosmologies. In: Ioris, A.A.R. (eds) Environment and Development . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55416-3_10
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