Territorial laboratories and post-extractivist futures in the Amazon; before and around the international master’s degree in Climate Change and Diversity 

The article intends to share practices, theoretical reflections, participant observation actions and shadowing on some dynamics related to the critique and alternatives to extractivism in the Ecuadorian Amazon, starting from studies and collaborations supported by unconventional resources in a perspective that contemplates the human and the more than human. These are cooperation experiences integrating teaching, research and public geography, innervating networks between groups of actors who find themselves around paths of change not generated and driven by the «development project». It reflects a three-decade of continuity achieved without dedicated funding and with available resources. Researchers, activists, graduate students and doctoral students participated. Year after year, several institutional initiatives have been formalized with colleagues from the Área de Ambiente y Sustentabilidad of the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Quito, involved in activist research projects with the aim of leaving fuels underground (such as the Yasuní-ITT initiative), which led to the construction of the International Master’s Degree course, later Erasmus Mundus, on Climate Change and Diversity. It is a long path of resistance, a marathons of mutual knowledge, dealing with the different declension of extractivism and endocolonialism in the alternance of governments between neoliberalism and socialism of the twenty-first century. 

Keywords: pluriverses, extractivism, Ecuador, Amazon, Yasuní.