"The Fire in the Streets Also Burns in the Kitchen": Indigenous Women and Other Ways of Political Action in the Rural Spaces of the Ecuadorian Buen Vivir and the Bolivian Vivir Bien

Abstract:

In this article I attempt to identify the strategies employed by indigenous women in Ecuador and Bolivia to empower themselves and participate politically in a context in which they are also the maintainers of community structures and links. By way of a qualitative approximation of two concrete cases in the rural townships of Cuenca in Ecuador and Sucre in Bolivia, I try to shed light on the resistance movements these indigenous women put into practice against the roles imposed, on the one hand, by a Westernized development of tutelage, and, on the other, by a hierarchical structure of gender within their own culture within the framing of the Ecuadorian Buen Vivir and the Bolivian Vivir Bien. However, their resistance strategies and political participation continue to be present in all fields and are made more and more notable in the intent to participate in the construction of a different development model that will privilege family unity, the bonds of solidarity, and the common good.

Año de publicación:

2018

Keywords:

• Convivir Bien
• Political participation
• RESISTANCE
• INDIGENOUS WOMEN
• BUEN VIVIR
• Tutelage
• Development

Fuente:

scopus