Amazonian identities in conflict: The obedient indigenous person versus the insurrectionist one

Abstract

Ecuadorian Amazon Kichwa communities, as reproducing agents of a discourse of domination that links the construction of subjectivities, are simultaneously active participants in a space of social struggles and tensions. The case of the Limoncocha community is an emblematic one. It deals with a population that was displaced from the Andean Region towards the Amazon and came into contact with other groups such as the Huaoranis. Consequently, due to the conflicts that arose as a result of these forced migrations, this community builds its historical narrative by appropriating and reproducing the savage/civilized man binary logic to vindicate their sense of belonging and social cohesion.