Una entrada descolonial en la Amazonía ecuatoriana A decolonial insight of the Ecuadorian Amazon

Abstract

This research project proposes a re-reading of spatial production processes in multi-ethnic and multicultural contexts of Ecuadorian Amazonian territories, adopting a specific ‘decolonial’.^[1] In particular, the attempt is to highlight some particularities about the gender difference^[2] that have been part of the dark side of the modern/ colonial organization, inherent in what Quijano (2000) describes as the coloniality of power.^[3] The decolonial discourse, in its break with the Western patriarchal paradigms, claims gender and bodily knowledge as opposed to the abstract ones, replacing traditional methodologies of socio-spatial analysis. In this process feminist perspectives gain importance in order to identify neglected or hidden dwelling practices, ecologies and forms of spatial production. The main hypothesis supported here is that, the identification of such practices of spatial production through a corporal, decolonial and feminist view is fundamental for the redefinition of planning strategies.