Indigenous handicrafts as departure point to understand the resistance and place belonging

Abstract

I share in these lines a bit of the motivations and reflections that led me to consider a doctoral thesis that addresses the crafts of the Saraguro people of Ecuador as an environmental educational process. Here are the previous paths, which mixed with the sense of belonging, have been intertwined to open spaces for other relevant issues also in indigenous matters and Environmental Education: how is the place perceived? What is the relationship between him and social struggles? I also write from the feeling that produces me to be Ecuadorian in a moment of popular revolt in my country, from those absences and nostalgia that are strongly manifested today, in that popular clamor that I accompany from afar, in that “(re)exist in times of regression”.