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Favaro, Roberta Flaborea

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“…Sofia Zaragocin has serious doubts concerning the development discourse and praxis based on her ten years of experience working for developing agencies in Ecuador and Ecuador-Colombia borderlands. Along with Juanita Francis Bone, Sofia is part of an antiracist collective in Ecuador that is actively against extractive industry activity and that has published a collective reflection on racism in Ecuador (Barboza and Zaragocin, 2021). Juanita considers development as part of the justification for the dispossession of territories that sustains neocolonial state dynamics.…”

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Questioning development from Black feminisms in Ecuador and moving towards a Black feminist political ecology in the Americas

Zaragocin,

Bone,

Boudewijn

et al. 2024

Global Discourse

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This article critically explores tensions concerning development from contemporary feminist thought and praxis in Latin America. In Ecuador, development is seen as an outdated and irrelevant theoretical framework from a variety of feminist perspectives, including feminist political ecology and decolonial feminisms. Nevertheless, development discourse and practices persist and are central to public policy with a gender focus throughout the country. This results in tensions between governmental and autonomous feminist perspectives that are present in local spaces, such as the province of Esmeraldas in Northern Ecuador. Drawing on research conducted with Afro-Ecuadorian peer researchers, including interviews, oral histories and social-cartography methods, this article will demonstrate how Afro-Ecuadorian women are challenging dominant ideas and practices of development from the emerging ideas of Black feminism in Ecuador and moving towards a Black feminist political ecology in the Americas.

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confidence: 99%