What is it about?
An analysis using the framing-approach in social movement studies to the relationship the indigenous movement in Ecuador maintains towards right as such and laws in concrete. This relationship moves constantly between a rejection of right and laws as means of oppression and their acceptance as means of liberation and forms an important part of the political demands of the movement.
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Why is it important?
Many social movements move between a rejection of legal norms as they see themselves as excluded from them and a use of those norms that at the same time legitimizes them and the state that is based on them. The strategic decision to rely on right-based claims or not is taken within the movement in question and can change at certain points.
Perspectives
This text was my opportunity to work with the material concerning legality and law within the indigenous movement. The framing approach did work out just fine.
Dr. Philipp Altmann
Universidad Central del Ecuador
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This page is a summary of: “The Right to Self-determination”: Right and Laws Between Means of Oppression and Means of Liberation in the Discourse of the Indigenous Movement of Ecuador, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, February 2015, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s11196-015-9415-z.
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