A New Indigenous Environmental Movement at Water’s Edge: Aggregating Individual Attitudes to Explain Recent Actions by Euador’s Amazonian Peoples

• In Event: Post-mobilization Indigenous Politics

Abstract

Parting from the literature on the Andean indigenous movements of the 1990s, this paper explains how those movements, led by Andean peoples advocating for indigenous rights, have given way to a new set of social movements. The new movements, by Ecuador’s Amazonian peoples, has been more decentralized and based on “knowledge” (environmental science relating to Amazon protection), rather than on “power” measured as mobilizational capacity, as in past movements. The authors draw their findings from a national survey conducted throughout Ecuador in 2014, which oversampled indigenous communities in the Andean and Amazon regions.

Author

• Todd A Eisenstadt, American University