El sueño oriental. O la dificultad de la incorporación del territorio amazónico al estado nacional en Ecuador
The aim of this article is to analyze the historical process of the articulation of national space in a region of the low Ecuadorian Amazon, the lower basin of the Curaray River. We try to prove that the nationalization of the Amazon in Ecuador -a great handicap in general- became a hopeless situati...
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2014
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| Sumario: | The aim of this article is to analyze the historical process of the articulation of national space in a region of the low Ecuadorian Amazon, the lower basin of the Curaray River. We try to prove that the nationalization of the Amazon in Ecuador -a great handicap in general- became a hopeless situation for the State in outlying regions like this. It is a territory with a dynamic history that, after the expansion of rubbering activity which began in 1980, was depopulated when this activity went into crisis (around 1920). Since the 1970’s seventies this area was the subject of a state resettlement project because of its geostrategic importance. For various reasons the project was never executed. It wouldn’t be until the 1990s that the appropriation of this territory would be effective, this time in the hands of indigenous Quichua elites who, with an ethnic and environmentalist discourse, would receive substantial resources from international corporations and manage to articulate a network of Quichua communities in the territory. The backbone of this article is the historical nationalization process of this territory of great economic importance. |
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