"With the unity of the people in active resistance" - The ideological discourse of Ecuador's indigenous movement
Author
Pinz, Anika
Term
4. term
Publication year
2020
Pages
85
Abstract
Det ecuadorianske oprindelige folks bevægelse, organiseret i CONAIE, trådte igen frem som en central aktør under tolv dages landsdækkende protester i oktober 2019 efter regeringens Dekret 883 om at afskaffe brændstofsubsidier som led i en IMF-aftale. Specialet undersøger, hvordan bevægelsens diskurs hjalp den med at genvinde politisk synlighed og lederskab i kampen mod neoliberale politikker. Med fokus på en periode, der er mindre undersøgt end 1990’erne-2000’erne og Correa-årene, anvender studiet en pluralistisk tilgang, der forbinder diskurs og ideologi. Det kombinerer Van Dijks ideologiske skema anvendt på CONAIEs politiske projekt med rammeanalyse af pressemeddelelser under mobiliseringen i 2019 og fortolker resultaterne med Manuel Castells’ begreber om modstandsidentitet og projektidentitet. Analysen peger på, at bevægelsen ikke blot modsætter sig neoliberalisme, men også formulerer et bredere transformativt mål: opbygningen af en plurinational stat og en afvisning af ekstraktivistiske udviklingsbaner samt samarbejde med IMF. Ved at forbinde oprindelige folks krav med nationale spørgsmål og organisere sig omkring territorial tilhørsforhold konstruerer CONAIE rammer, der udvider appel og understøtter fremvæksten af en projektidentitet. Samtidig står bevægelsen over for opgaven med at udvide in-gruppens grænser for at undgå eksklusion og muliggøre dybere, samfundsomfattende forandring.
Ecuador’s indigenous movement, organized in CONAIE, re-emerged as a key actor during twelve days of nationwide protests in October 2019 after the government announced Decree 883 to end fuel subsidies under an IMF agreement. This thesis examines how the movement’s discourse helped it regain political visibility and leadership in the struggle against neoliberal policies. Addressing a recent period that is less studied than the 1990s–2000s and the Correa era, the study adopts a plural approach linking discourse and ideology. It combines Van Dijk’s ideological schema applied to CONAIE’s political project with frame analysis of press releases issued during the 2019 mobilization, and interprets the findings through Manuel Castells’ concepts of resistance identity and project identity. The analysis indicates that beyond opposing neoliberalism, the movement articulates a wider transformative goal: building a plurinational state and rejecting extractivist development paths and cooperation with the IMF. By linking indigenous claims to national issues and organizing around territorial belonging, CONAIE constructs frames that broaden appeal and support the emergence of a project identity. At the same time, the movement faces the strategic task of expanding in-group boundaries to avoid exclusion and enable deeper, society-wide change.
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