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This paper takes us beyond the present economic crisis to where global warming warns of a much more profound problem: a structural flaw in capitalism. Theoretically linking relations between climate change, colonialism, and capitalism, San Lorenzo is investigated as an agricultural frontier where "CO2lonialism" unfolds in African oil palm cultivation and agrofuel production. This re s e a rch highlights the cultural and spatial practices through which Afro - Ecuadorian, Chachi and Awá communities construct and sustain "geographies of hope" amid landscapes of fallen forests, poisoned rivers and social conflicts. Expounding on the ecological debt of the Global No rth to the Global South, this paper condemns discourses and actions that solely focus on improving the economic climate while bulldozing rainforests, livelihoods, and real solutions to climate change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper concentrates on the foundations of the architecture of Echeverría's thoughts. It focuses on the launch of an organic concept of culture associated with the problems developed by way of Marx about the "social-natural way", which recognizes the essential contradictions in the existance of the social being. We will refer to Echeverría's theory of the ethe of modernity to investigate the anchors of a non-capitalist modernity. Particularly, our reading of his works attempts to highlight its political nature, aiming its theoretical discussions toward the tensions between use value and exchange value. Additionally, it displaces --yet does not omit-- the labor-capital contradiction that lies at the center of the paradigm of both left-wing criticism and the idea of revolution. We consider the persistence of use-value and the qualitative dimensions of life-world both central keys in establishing a world to come. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we present the historical, social, political and economical context in which the Amazon basin is to be considered, from an andean perspective. In the introduction we review a few basic facts about the geografic and demografic state of the region. Then we present the main steps of the human ocupation of the amazon area, from the Conquest to the irruption of capitalism. The second part is dedicated to the internationalization of the amazon agenda, especially throughout the conservation of the environment and the cooperation. We conclude with a short comment on the role of social actors in the region's future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]