Socio-cultural innovation and care policies: construction and dissemination of sensory ethnographies based on creative practice, on diverse maternities in southern Ecuador

This project investigates maternal care practices between Kichwa women, Shuar, Achuar, Afro-Ecuadorian, mestizas, and women-women in situations of human mobility in the Austro Ecuadorian and Guayaquil. Its objective is to create a digital environment that houses images, sounds, texts and works, culturally pertinent representing various maternal care practices in the region. With this, it seeks to recognize and value the contribution of the daily exercise of Maternar, documenting these practices as significant sociocultural resources and promoting the exchange of knowledge. From a gender and intercultural perspective, this project aims to contribute to the recognition and assessment of maternal work in the context of care policies and economy in Ecuador and the region. The theoretical framework of the investigation is based on various currents. From political philosophy, Silvia Federici contributes the historical division of productive and reproductive work and Nancy Fraser, his theory about recognition and representation as responses to symbolic injustices. In gender studies, Joan Tronto addresses the political dimensions of care ethics and Kimberlé Crenshaw brings the intersectional theory, while matriccentric feminism, fed by Sara Ruddick, Adrienne Rich and developed by Andrea O'Reilly positions the experience of maternity in the center of a reflection. From the intercultural perspective, Catherine Walsh contributes with her ideas about critical interculturality and, anchoring the discussion to the territory, Rozengardt et al. It provides a perspective of the maternario in a situation of human mobility in the Andes, while Armando VERYLEMA contributes to reflect on knowledge and knowledge (collective knowledge), while Juan García brings with the notions of home outside and home in. Finally, with Murphy and Ferrara, Paz and Miño, and Whitten and Whitten, the textile elements are proposed as devices used in care tasks and loaded with meanings, which also have enormous cultural relevance in Ecuador and the region.

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