Interculturalidad, Territorio y Conflictos: Apuntes En Torno al Desencuentro entre estado y Nacionalidades Indígenas a Partir del Caso de Pastaza

The local knowledge and capacities of the communities and families of the different indigenous peoples and nationalities of Ecuador have often been overlooked in the development and planning discourse as well as in environmental management and land-use planning processes, and the cultural dimension has often been largely excluded. Despite the fact that the country was recognized in its 2008 Constitution as a "constitutional state of rights and social justice, democratic, sovereign, independent, unitary, intercultural, plurinational and secular..." (Art.1), traditional practices and knowledge of integrated territorial management are not part of any public policy cycle. Even in the 21st century, governance continues from above and from outside, in an ethnocentric and monocultural key. How has the dominant cultural perspective in the processes of planning and management of local and territorial development been functional to the expansion of capitalist development and the consolidation of the Creole project of the nation-state? How would the hegemonic perspectives of territorial planning and management be modified if an intercultural view and relationship were incorporated? These are the questions that the text seeks to answer, in a first critical approach to this issue, seeking to explore possible lines of research to deepen knowledge about this central problem of Ecuador and its path as an economic-social formation.