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Prácticas de resistencia y organización social en las mujeres indígenas shuar de la comunidad Nankints provincia de Morona Santiago, 2018

Abstract:

The following research work analyzes the forms of resistance and daily practices that the Shuar indigenous women, of the displaced community Nankints, have been transformed after the entry of mining companies into their territory, as a result of a historical process of expansion and reproduction of the capitalist system in Latin America. Before the problems studied, it was observed how the Ecuadorian Amazonian territory is the center of conflicts between indigenous villages and extractivist companies to accumulate, through the plundering of natural resources and appropriation of the territory. This appropriation of the territory is the product of the alliance that the State has with the capitalist system, which has shaped the entire political and economic framework with which the countries are governed, where the commodification of nature and the expropriation of the labor force of men and women are the symptoms that reflect the precariousness of life in the concessioned communities. Communities, in the face of this, have modified their community organization and social relations, especially women who have been taking an active political role, turning these practices into signs of resistance, in defense of their territory, their families and their work and a transformation in the perception that Shuar women have and the roles they fulfill in their communities.