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Limitations to the recognition of the ancestral territory in Ecuador

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Authors

Andrea Soledad

Reported year

2020

Reported language

es · spa

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Article

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2026-11-09T19:07:07.118631+00:00

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Documentary abstract — original language

A partir de la Constitución de 2008, el Ecuador reconoció el territorio ancestral como un derecho colectivo de las comunidades, pueblos y nacionalidades indígenas por constituir un espacio de preservación de la cultura. Este derecho, que podía considerarse también una manifestación del Estado intercultural, ha sido limitado desde el discurso del Ejecutivo y por medio de disposiciones normativas. La presente investigación aborda el estudio del derecho al territorio ancestral y las limitaciones que este ha sufrido en Ecuador. Para demostrar esta premisa, se analizará uno de los casos emblemáticos sobre los límites al territorio ancestral, se trata de la comunidad Nankints perteneciente al pueblo shuar, sobre la base de dos enfoques: el internacional, a partir de la jurisprudencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, la Convención Americana de Derechos Humanos y el Convenio 169 de la OIT sobre Pueblos Indígenas y Tribales; y el del Estado intercultural con la revisión de la Constitución ecuatoriana y por las normas que sobre el tema se han expedido. El objetivo de esta investigación es evidenciar que las limitaciones al derecho del territorio ancestral no responden a un análisis teórico-normativo únicamente; en muchas ocasiones son el producto de la voluntad política del gobierno de turno. As of the 2008 Constitution, Ecuador recognized ancestral territory as a collective right of indigenous communities, peoples and nationalities for constituting a space for the preservation of culture. This right that could also be considered a manifestationof the intercultural state has been limited since the executive’s speech and through normative provisions. This research addresses the study of the right to ancestral territory and the limitations it has suffered in Ecuador. To demonstrate this premise, one of the emblematic cases on the boundaries of ancestral territory will be analyzed, it is about the Nankints community belonging to the Shuar people, based on two approaches: the international one, based on the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the American Convention on Human Rights and the ILO Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples; and that of the intercultural State since the revision of the Ecuadorian Constitution through the norms that have been issued on the subject. The objective of this investigation is to show that the limitations to the law of the ancestral territory do not respond to a theoretical-normative analysis only, in many cases they are the product of the political will of the government of the day.

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Scholarship

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EC

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OpenAIRE · Record 1

• Document · https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/foro/article/view/1458

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