Las luchas de las mujeres shuar en contextos extractivos: una ecología política feminista y comunitaria desde la Amazonía ecuatoriana / Shuar Women Confronting Extraction in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Feminist and Community-Centered Political Ecology

Drawing on two decades of ethnographic observation (2001-2023), this article describes how flows and leaks of goods between oil companies and local communities cause ruptures in the reorganization of community social reproduction of the Centro Shuar of Tiguano, in the Ecuadorian Amazon. We focus on the struggles of the Indigenous women of the community of Tiguano, describing their daily patterns and spaces of negotiation with, adaptation to, and rejection of extractive activities, which cause ecological degradation, but also generate economic income and improve basic services in the community. Starting from the framework of feminist and Indigenous community politics, we argue that these struggles not only express women's political agency in defending themselves against oil extraction, but also complicate essentialist and dualist explanations of how resistance, refusal, and self-determination manifest in extractive contexts. These intersectional and multiscalar struggles are understood through the Shuar worldview of social reproduction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]