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Intercultural Interventions: Politics, Community, and Environment in the Otavalo Valley

Intercultural Interventions: Politics, Community, and Environment in the Otavalo Valley

Stolle-McAllister, John

Hardcover

Indigenous StudiesSouth American History

ISBN10: 1621964256
ISBN13: 9781621964254
Publisher: Cambria Pr
Published: Mar 6 2019
Pages: 294
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book examines cultural and political changes in Ecuador, and particularly in the Otavalo Valley of the Northern Sierra, in the wake of the country's Indigenous movement of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The primary focus is on the decade between 2006 and 2016. This period represents an important juncture, as people in Indigenous communities began constructing the new normal after a time of profound political, cultural and social change, brought about by the concerted effort of their organizations. The election of Rafael Correa on a very progressive platform also represented, ironically, the decline of the national Indigenous organizations as institutional political actors. Many Kichwa people in this period continued to live and rework their traditional practices and belief in a context of greater exposure to and contact with other cultural groups. Although these communities were never isolated from others, their relationship changed as a result of the mobilizations from 1990s onward. Those mobilizations themselves, of course, were part of a much longer historic trajectory of resistance, autonomous development, and internal and external negotiations. The construction of this new normal, finally, did not happen simply as the manifestation of some collective will. Rather it was the result of multiple and constant negotiations as individuals and groups asserted new or transformed identities and practices while they navigated drastically changed landscapes, some of their own doing and some well beyond their control.

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