Abstract
In this article we expose the incorporation of Amazonian ontologies in the political proposals inherent to the ethno-territorial struggles of the villages of Sarayaku and Zápara. From an ethnographic analysis and a critical analysis of information discourse available on different digital platforms and official documents, we expose how the expansion of extractivism and the historical evolution of Amazonian struggles have influenced the Záparas and Kichwas of Sarayaku to turn their traditional ecological struggles around. In defense of their territories, they have incorporated into their political proposals and discourses, relational ontologies that account for human and non-human agents and sentient entities that challenge the political sphere in local and international spaces. The authors concluded that these cosmopolitics reveal relational spaces that escape modern ontological precepts, but also ontological conflicts and antagonisms marked by power relations are exposed, at the core of these discrepancies there is a crucial disagreement, the notion of Nature.
Keywords:
ontologies; ethnoterritorial struggles; ecological crisis; extractivism