Essays about: "CONAIE"
Found 5 essays containing the word CONAIE.
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1. Decolonial Conflict Transformation: Towards Indigenous Environmental Justice : Understanding Environmental Justice Conflict Dynamics from the Perspective of Ecuadorian Indigenous Social Movements
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)Abstract : This study examines the indigenous environmental justice conflict in settler-colonial Ecuador, aiming to contribute to a nuanced understanding of how environmental justice can be achieved regarding ways in which the conflict is expressed by indigenous peoples. The analysis departs from political articulations, worldviews, and deployed action repertoires to confront hegemonic power. READ MORE
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2. Guardians of Life: Making Sense of Gender Equality and Women´s Activism Within Ecuador´s Indigenous Movement
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and ManagementAbstract : Much attention has been paid to Indigenous gender ideologies and Indigenous women´s political participation in Latin America. The construction of gender equality and its implications for Indigenous women’s activism in Ecuador´s Indigenous movement is, however, widely undiscovered terrain. READ MORE
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3. Ecuadorian indigenous youth and identities : cultural homogenization or indigenous vindication?
University essay from Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)Abstract : There exists a scholarly debate on the cultural impact of globalization and how and to what extent it is affecting indigenous people in particular. Three theoretical standpoints can be discerned from the debate; the homogenization-perspective which holds that globalization is making world cultures more similar, the hybridization-perspective which emphasizes that it is fragmenting cultural boundaries and the differentiation-perspective which implies that globalization is augmenting differences and making humanity as a whole more diverse. READ MORE
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4. The Fragmentation of the Indigenous Movement in Ecuador. : Perspectives on the Tension between Class and Ethnicity
University essay from Institutionen för spanska, portugisiska och latinamerikastudierAbstract : Since the first years of the 21st century, the Ecuadorian indigenous movement, classified as the most overwhelming social actor since its emergence in the mid 1980s, finds itself in crises, with its principal organizations marked by tensions and conflicts. With a departure in the fragmentation of the indigenous movement, the context of the study is the impact of issues related to the concepts of class and ethnicity. READ MORE
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5. Indigenous people in transnationational mobilizations against the Free Trade Area of the Americas - a case study of the indigenous movement CONAIE
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The initiative to unite the economies of the Americas into a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is increasingly threatening the survival of the indigenous people making them coalesce into transnational coalitions with people throughout the region. The aim of this thesis is to examine how the threats posed by the proposed FTAA and the opportunities of transnational activism opposing it has influenced the movement identity of an indigenous social movement. READ MORE
