{"product_id":"reality-of-dreams-9780300253429","title":"Reality of Dreams","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn exploration of radical megaprojects in the Ecuadorian Amazon, considering the fate of utopian fantasies under conditions of global capitalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eReality of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e is theoretically and empirically rich, deeply researched, closely argued, and very well written. This highly original work dismantles the developmental fantasies of the petro-state, showing how they crash miserably against the reality of petro-capitalism and how possibilities of radical social change emerge spontaneously from their debris.”—Mazen Labban, author of \u003ci\u003eSpace, Oil and Capital\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eReality of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e hovers in exciting ways over shadows cast by the secret dread animating all theory—that in the not so long run, nothing makes sense. What we have are fantasies rendered in ruins midst the juggernaut of ‘development.’ It is grotesque. It is absurd. It is unbelievable.”—Michael Taussig, author of \u003ci\u003eMastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eReality of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e is an epic tale of heroic modernization that takes us into the dark, dystopian heart of the post-neoliberal Citizens’ Revolution and President Correa’s petro-dream world, emerging into a world ever more fit for capitalist plunder.”—Michael J. Watts, Class of 1963 Professor of Geography and Development Studies Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“From the Jesuits, to Jonestown, to the (failed) from-scratch urban modernist ventures, Amazonia has not lacked for utopian experiments. Japhy Wilson’s fantastic book explores the Ecuadorian iteration of yet another tropical urban utopia fever dream.”—Susanna B. Hecht, author of \u003ci\u003eScramble for the Amazon\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFate of the Forest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49401562562903,"sku":"9780300253429","price":35.62,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300253429.jpg?v=1730477808","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reality-of-dreams-9780300253429","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}