Abstract
Departing from an ethnographic fieldwork dedicated to the reality of the afro-ecuadorian community of “La Chiquita”, in particular on its struggle concerning their ancestral territorial integrity in response of a growing dispossession process orchestrated by oil palm monocultures in Ecuador, we propose: (I) comprehend the “coloniality” of the State within this conflict, including the disciplinary and institutional ethos in interpreting blackness; and (II) identify and analyze the various forms of resistance of this community in response to such vertical sociopolitical structure, bringing out their narratives in context from a criticism focused on epistemology and the sociology of law.
Keywords:
Afro-ecuadorians; Postcolonialism; Sociology of law