Extractivism, Gender, and Disease: An Intersectional Approach to Inequalities

摘要: Social inequalities can only be understood through the interaction of their multiple dimensions. In this essay, we show that economic and environmental impacts natural resource extraction exacerbate gendered disparities intensification devaluation care work. A chikungunya epidemic in refinery city Esmeraldas, Ecuador, serves to highlight embodied structural violence unhealthy conditions. Despite its promises development, extraction-based economy Esmeraldas has not increased vulnerable populations’ opportunities. It has, instead, deepened class hierarchies. context, most severe effects are experienced by women, who bear burden social reproduction sustaining lives under constant threat.