Plurinationality and epistemic justice

Ruth Arias-Gutiérrez (Ecuador) is a militant woman, Andean - Amazonian, worker for biodiversity, equity and the exercise of rights and responsibilities; she is a full professor at the Amazon State University in Puyo, Ecuador where she has been serving as The Rector from 2019-2021. She is the PI in the project Ecocultural Pluralism in the Ecuadorian Amazon (funded by the Academy of Finland). She has been a member of the environmental management network of the Ecuadorian Amazon with indigenous knowledge and is part of the European Action COST Decolonizing Development.

Paola Minoia (Italia) is an associate professor of political and economic geography at the University of Turin and an adjunct professor of global development studies at the University of Helsinki. Her research interests intersect the fields of political ecology and post-development with a focus on territoriality, relations between the state and minority groups, socio-environmental justice, eco-cultural knowledge, the pluriverse and decoloniality. She was the Principal Investigator in the project Ecocultural Pluralism in the Ecuadorian Amazon financed by the Academy of Finland and a co-leader in the network Decolonising Development. She was also part in the Executive Committee of EADI.

Chapter 1: introduction: Education as cultural and ecological revitalization among Amazonian nationalities.- Chapter 2 - Public education policies and the struggle of the Indigenous movement for a decolonial interculturality.- Chapter 3 - Characteristics of the inclusion of Indigenous peoples in the school system.- Chapter 4 - From discourse to structure: interculturality in Amazonian universities.- Chapter 5 - Intercultural education and agency of Indigenous communities: a view from the Sapara territory.- Chapter 6 - Indigenous young people's access to schools in the province of Pastaza.- Chapter 7 - Educational experiential calendars: creating links between Indigenous communities and high school.- Chapter 8 - Interculturality in the classroom: accompanying students from minority cultures in Pastaza.- Chapter 9 - Participatory Design interventions: supporting university student care networks in times of Covid.