Political and Cultural Background of the Ecuadorian Amazon

Muratorio, Blanca. The Life and Times of Grandfather Alonso: Culture and History in the Upper Amazon (Hegemony and Experience). Rutgers University Press, 1991.

"Nacionalidad Kichwa de la Amazonía." Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos. http://www.inec.gov.ec/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=2023546&name=DLFE-21541.pdf.

Perreault, Thomas. "Making Space: Community Organization, Agrarian Change, and the Politics of Scale in the Ecuadorian Amazon." Latin American Perspectives 30, no. 1 (Perreault, Making Space, January 2003): 96-121.

Sawyer, Suzana. Crude Cronicles: Indigenous Politics, Mulinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador. Durham and London: Duke UP, 2004.

Uzendoski, Michael A. "El regreso de Jumandy: historicidad, parentesco y lenguaje en Napo." Íconos 26: 161-72.

Uzendoski, Michael A. "Manioc Beer and Meat: Value, Reproduction and Cosmic Substance among the Napo Runa of the Ecuadorian Amazon." The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 10, no. 4 (Uzendoski, Manioc Beer and Meat, December 2004): 883-902.

Uzendoski, Michael A. The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005.

Whitten, Norman E. Cultural transformations and ethnicity in modern Ecuador. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981.

Relationship between Environment and Development:

Li, Tania Murray. The Will to Improve. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.

Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connections. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Silva, Eduardo. "Thinking politically about sustainable development in the tropical forests of Latin America." Development and Change, 25. (1994): 697-721.

Agrawal, Arun. Environmentality. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.

History and Critiques of International Development

Escobar, Arturo. Encountering Development. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.

Kay, Cristobál. "Teorías latinoamericanas del desarollo." Nueva Sociedad, Mayo-Junio 1991: 101-113.

Ferguson, James. The anti-politics machine: "development" depoliticization, and bureaucratic power in Lesotho. Cambridge: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, 1990.

Appiah, Anthony. Cosmopolitanism: ethics in a world of strangers. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006.

Capability Approach:

Alkire, Sabina (2002). Valuing Freedoms: Sen’s Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Anand, Sudhir, Fabien Peter and Amartya Sen (eds.) (2004). Public Health, Ethics and Equity. New York: Oxford University Press.

Comim, Flavio, Mozaffar Qizibash and Sabina Alkire (eds.) (2008). The Capability Approach: Concepts, Measures and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Deneulin, Severine (2006). The Capability Approach and the Praxis of Development. New York: Palgrave MacMillan

Deneulin, Severine and Lila Shahani (eds) (2009). An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach. London: Earthscan

Kaufman, Alexander (ed) (2006). Capabilities Equality: Basic Issues and Problems. New York: Routledge

Sen, Amartya (1992). Inequality Re-examined. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press

— (1999). Development as Freedom. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Vizard, Polly (2006). Poverty and Human Rights: Sen’s Capability Perspective’ Explored. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Walker, Melanie and Elaine Unterhalter (eds.) (2007). Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education. New York: Pelgrave MacMillan.

Globalization:

Castells, Manuel (1996) The Rise of Network Society, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture Vol. I Oxford: Blackwell Publishers

— (1997). The Power of Identity, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture Vol. II. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

Kaufman, Robert R. and Joan M. Nelson (eds) (2004). Crucial Needs Weak Incentives- Social Sector Reform, Democratization, and Globalization in Latin America. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press.

Munck, Ronaldo (2005). Globalization and Social Exclusion: A Transformationalist Perspective. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press.

Stiglitz, Joseph (2003). Globalization and its Discontents. New York: W.W. Norton & Company

Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty:

Morán, Ricardo (ed.) (2003). Escaping the Poverty Trap- Investing in Children in Latin America. Washington, DC: Inter- American Development Bank.

Structural Violence:

Briggs, Charles (2003). Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Farmer, Paul (1999). Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. Berkeley: University of California Press.

— (2004). An Anthropology of Structural Violence. Current Anthropology 45(3):305-325

— (2005). Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. Berkley: University of California Press.

Tilly, Charles (1998). Durable Inequality. Berkley: University of California Press