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"La división del mundo entre los que se rehúsan a ser comprendidos y los que buscan darse a entender sin que esto les aporte privilegio alguno": Vindication of Land and Reason in Saraguro, Ecuador

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2010, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Latin American Studies (International Studies).
As a starting point for exploring regimes of truth, I consider Michael Taussig's question: "Can we understand the effects of truth in ruling ideologies without taking their poetics into account?" I wanted to understand the tensions in Saraguro, Ecuador revealed in narratives about a water conflict and the underlying historical conditions. My question was: Why have the mayor and the communities not been able to come to a "meeting point" despite apparent dialogue? Analyzing the conflict required excavations into local, national and continental histories that flickered in and out of the stories told to me as "flowerings" of great cycles of buried history. The conflict is not about the water; instead, it reflects the nature of conflicts between the State and indigenous people; the inability to advance a dialogue exposes two historical difficulties: the first is a "regime of truth" that says Indians are not fully capable of possessing "reason," and thus are not seen as "equals" in a dialogue; and second is that the points of contention actually revolve around territorial sovereignty. I used a discursive-historical and textual analysis, informed by a decolonial perspective, of my interviews and scholarly literature to explore these two historical avenues.
Amado Láscar, PhD (Committee Chair)
George Hartley, PhD (Committee Member)
Ghirmai Negash, PhD (Committee Member)
185 p.

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  • Vincent, L. C. (2010). "La división del mundo entre los que se rehúsan a ser comprendidos y los que buscan darse a entender sin que esto les aporte privilegio alguno": Vindication of Land and Reason in Saraguro, Ecuador [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1268859422

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Vincent, Leah. "La división del mundo entre los que se rehúsan a ser comprendidos y los que buscan darse a entender sin que esto les aporte privilegio alguno": Vindication of Land and Reason in Saraguro, Ecuador. 2010. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1268859422.

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  • Vincent, Leah. ""La división del mundo entre los que se rehúsan a ser comprendidos y los que buscan darse a entender sin que esto les aporte privilegio alguno": Vindication of Land and Reason in Saraguro, Ecuador." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1268859422

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)