Preventive Mobilities, Relational Territoriality: Strategies for Collective Crises in Western Ecuador
Abstract
The Tsachila Society of Western Ecuador remembers in its mythical corpus and in its historical past great social and environmental crises that have been resolved thanks to collective strategies, compatible with cultural patterns and a form of relational territoriality. Far from direct confrontation, relocation and mobility as formulas to resolve crises have allowed this group to overcome colonial attacks, pandemics, climate catastrophes and more daily social conflicts. However, the most recent global crises seem to coincide with changes that lead to a new, forced relationship with the land and less autonomy to resolve them.
Based on data obtained from ethnographic fieldwork that extends from the nineties to the present, the text addresses the mythical past and the most recent history and analyzes the collective strategies to face the global challenges of historical and contemporary Tsachila society.
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