Royal Geographical Society RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2019

Minoia, P. (Speaker: Presenter)

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Presentation: Intercultural education in Ecuador: epistemic rights on territories and plurinationalism".
Session: "Socioterritorial movements beyond Latin America (2): empirical dialogues"

Period	29 Aug 2019
Event type	Conference
Location	London , United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International

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The colonial legacy of Ecuador marks, still nowadays, the political relations between central government and indigenous nationalities and ethnic groups. Territorial restitution is at the basis of protests, starting by the First Indigenous Uprising of 1990 and the 1992 March of the Pastaza people leading to the State recognition of indigenous territorial rights, to more recent mobilizations against the SENPLADES planning (2007-2017) enforcing oil extractionism in the territories of the nationalities. Despite the 2008 Constitution declaring the intercultural and plurinational State, territorial autonomy and self-determination is far from being respected. Emancipatory struggles lead by the indigenous organizations have involved intercultural bilingual education as a practice of inclusion, recognition and revitalization of ecological and cultural knowledge of indigenous people and nations in formal education. Here territorio is understood as the space-time category in which community practices are validated, and eco-cultural ancestral knowledges of the indigenous people (Sacha Runa Yachay) are reproduced and revitalized in unity with the earth (Sumak Allpa); and as a political category linking communities and their representative organizations in struggles for territorial justice. Our focus is on public policies on education and the debate linking interculturality, territorio-territoriality and plurinationalism, with examples from community schools in Pastaza province.

Royal Geographical Society RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2019

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