What is it about?
This text is a short overview over the protests in Octuber 2019 in Ecuador, focussing especially on the important participation of the indigenous movement. It contains a revision of the comuniqués, press releases, statements, etc. of the organizations of the indigenous movement, showing a connection to their established discourse and a trend towards anti-extractivism and post-extractivism.
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Why is it important?
This concrete mobilization was the biggest and most successful one for the indigenous movement since its long crisis since the early 2000s. The movement was not only a main factor of the concrete actions on the street, but it did also communicate its demands in different ways and was leading in the negotations with the government that led to an end of the mobilizations.
Perspectives
This text helped me to understand how the discourse of the indigenous movement evolved since the early 2010s - Buen Vivir/Sumak Kawsay is weaker but not absent and anti-/postextractivism is much clearer than before.
Dr. Philipp Altmann
Universidad Central del Ecuador
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This page is a summary of: Eleven days in October 2019 – the indigenous movement in the recent mobilizations in Ecuador, International Journal of Sociology, April 2020, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/00207659.2020.1752498.
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