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• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Chapter I. Survey of the Republic of the Equator
• Chapter II. The Ecuadorian pattern
• Chapter III. Political instability in Ecuador
• Chapter IV. Parties and elections
• Chapter V. The national administration
• Chapter VI. The national legislature
• Chapter VII. The national judiciary
• Chapter VIII. Provincial and local government
• Chapter IX. The Ecuadorian system: a recapitulation
• Bibliography
• Index

• Introduction: Toward a decolonial feminist critique of penality
• Protecting women in postcolonial Latin America
• Law was foe : women's movements before the 1990s
• Violence against women, human rights, and the turn to criminal law
• From neoliberal to post-liberal : the constitutional journey of rights-based penality
• A new penal code : criminalising violence against women using rights-based penality
• Report from the field : women's experiences of using specialised penal courts.

• Introduction: Toward a decolonial feminist critique of penality
• Protecting women in postcolonial Latin America
• Law was foe : women's movements before the 1990s
• Violence against women, human rights, and the turn to criminal law
• From neoliberal to post-liberal : the constitutional journey of rights-based penality
• A new penal code : criminalising violence against women using rights-based penality
• Report from the field : women's experiences of using specialised penal courts
• Conclusion

Offering an important addition to existing critiques of governance feminism and carceral expansion based mainly on experiences from the Global North, this book critically addresses feminist law reform on violence against women, from a decolonial perspective. Challenging the consensus that penal expansion is mainly associated with the co-option of feminist campaigns to counteract violence against women in the context of neoliberal globalisation, this book shows that long-standing colonial narratives underlie many of today's dominant legal discourses justifying criminalisation, even in countries whose governments have called themselves "leftist" and "post-neoliberal". Mapping the history of law reform on violence against women in Ecuador, the book reveals how the conciliation between feminist campaigns and criminalisation strategies takes place through liberal legality, the language of human rights, and the discourse of constitutional guarantees, across the political spectrum. Whilst human rights make violence against women intelligible in mainstream legal terms, the book shows that the emergence of a "rights-based penality" produces a benign, formally innocuous criminal law, which can be presented as progressive, but in practice reproduces colonial and postcolonial paradigms that limit and reshape feminist demands. The book raises new questions on the complex social and political factors that impact on feminist law reform projects, as it demonstrates how colonial assumptions about gender, race, class, and the family remain embedded in liberal criminal law. This theoretically and empirically informed analysis makes an innovative contribution to feminist legal theory, post-colonial studies, and criminal law; and will be of interest to activists, scholars and policymakers working at the intersections between gender equality, law, and violence in Latin America and beyond.
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• Chapter 1 Introduction: Indigenous peoples and modernity: identity in the ages of empire and decolonization
• Chapter 2 Global governance of the environment: multiple accountability disorder?
• Chapter 3 Buen Vivir and the Rights of Nature in national and international Law
• Chapter 4 Indigenous peoples' rights and global governance of the environment in the Amazon basin: case study Ecuador
• Chapter 5 Corporate Social Responsibility and the extractive industries in the Ecuadorian Amazon: indigenous rights and the environment
• Chapter 6 Biodiversity, global governance of the environment and indigenous peoples
• Chapter 7 Sustainable funds and "cuddly capitalism": indigenous land defenders and the greenwashing of investment management
• Chapter 8 Financing for development: extra-official payments as incentives for development projects.
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This book explores the obstacles facing indigenous communities, non-governmental organizations, governments, and international institutions in their attempts to protect the cultures of indigenous peoples and the world's remaining rainforests. Indigenous peoples are essential as guardians of the world's wild places for the maintenance of ecosystems and the prevention of climate change. The Amazonian/Andean indigenous philosophies of sumac kawsay/suma qamana (buen vivir) were the inspiration for the incorporation of the Rights of Nature into the Ecuadorian and Bolivian constitutions of 2008 and 2009. Yet despite the creation of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (2000), and the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007), indigenous peoples have been marginalized from intergovernmental environmental negotiations. Indigenous environment protectors' lives are in danger while the Amazon rainforests continue to burn. By the third decade of the 21st century, the dawn of "woke" capitalism was accompanied by the expansion of ethical investment, with BlackRock leading the field in the "greening" of investment management, while Big Oil sought a career change in sustainable energy production. The final chapters explain the confluence of forces that has resulted in the continued expansion of the extractive frontier into indigenous territory in the Amazon, including areas occupied by peoples living in voluntary isolation. Among these forces are legal and extracurricular payments made to individuals, within indigenous communities and in state entities, and the use of tax havens to deposit unofficial payments made to secure public contracts. Solutions to loss of biodiversity and climate change may be found as much in the transformation of global financial and tax systems in terms of transparency and accountability, as in efforts by states, intergovernmental institutions and private foundations to protect wild areas through the designation of national parks, through climate finance, and other "sustainable" investment strategies.
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