Critical analysis of the impact on local livelihoods in four communities affected by the landfill in the Francisco de Orellana canton.

Waste is the ultimate evidence that all the society-nature relations of capitalist modernity are wrong. In order to reproduce capital, capitalist society needs to accelerate its industrialized social metabolism, accelerating the rhythms at which it appropriates, circulates, transforms, consumes and excretes nature. Thus, the trashing of bodies and territories is one of the symptoms of this metabolic breakdown, which discards nature and people and which requires trashing some territories in order to sanitize others.
In this research, Héctor J. Pérez Zamora presents the reconfigurations in the ways of life of four communities affected by the garbage dump in the city of El Coca, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, a territory reconfigured at the sacrifice of garbage disposal and oil extractivism, where peasant families have had to either migrate or mutate their ways of life.

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