Narrativas de mujeres indígenas ecuatorianas: subjetividades políticas en tres generaciones

Abstract

Indigenous women for decades have faced persistent forms of discrimination that expose them to violations of their human rights in all dimensions of their daily lives: from their political and civil rights, such as access to justice, to depriving them of access to employment, education, society and culture, their right to live free from violence. Although indigenous women are discriminated against and their rights are violated, they should not be perceived simply as victims. For this reason, in the present work a tour of the subjectivity of the narratives of six indigenous women is made, who from generation to generation have played a decisive role. The research is of a qualitative type, due to the collection of information, through narrative productions. Managing to identify categories within community social psychology; such as political memories, gender violence, racial discrimination, political subjectivity, and the redefinition of indigenous women. The results that were reflected through the stories are that political subjectivity is expressed through the struggle of indigenous women, by raising their voices in search of basic resources, in search of access to education, in addition to giving continuity and resignifying customs, and their search to leave gender violence and discrimination in the past. Achieving in this way currently generating spaces of equality and non-discrimination.