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Ecuador divided over oil
Title
Ecuador [electronic resource (video)] : divided over oil / Network Ireland Television.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2006], c2004.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (26 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on Feb. 14, 2006.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Portions have English subtitles.
Title from distributor's description.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
This program contrasts indigenous, community-based culture with market economics driven by multinational corporations. The film assesses the growing conflict between Burlington Resources, an American oil company licensed to prospect in regions of Ecuador, and the self-sufficient Achuar people of that country, who believe the oil industry will destroy their environment and non-materialistic way of life. Underscoring the Ecuadorian government's tendency to accommodate U.S. interests, the video portrays a country divided by incompatible definitions of wealth and happiness.
Variant and related titles
Divided over oil
Films on demand.
Other formats
Originally produced: Network Ireland Television, 2006
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Series
Fighting the Tide: Developing Nations and Globalization
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
9 & up.
Contents
Ecuador's Achuar People (3:49)
Ecuador's Rainforest Sustains the Achuar (3:19)
Indigenous Ecuadorians Fight Big Oil (2:03)
Social and Environmental Abuses in Ecuador (3:42)
Ecuador's Political Instability (4:40)
Cultures Clash in Ecuador's Oil Dispute (2:38)
The Achuar People's Fight to Survive (2:43)
Videorecording number
34467s Infobase
34469 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
Network Ireland Television.
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