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Re-Mapping the Nation: Cartography, Geographical Knowledge and Ecuadorean Multiculturalism*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 July 2010

SARAH A. RADCLIFFE
SARAH A. RADCLIFFE
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Sarah Radcliffe is Reader in Latin American Geography at the University of Cambridge. Email: sar23@cam.ac.uk.
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Abstract

Starting from an understanding that maps of an entire nation-state territory reflect and regulate state projects and expressions of national identity, rather than providing detailed technical information for decision making, this paper examines the national maps of race/ethnicity produced under Ecuador's state-led multiculturalism. Using national-scale cartography as a means to examine contested processes of rearticulating state, citizen and nation, the paper analyses recent transformations in cartography, nation building and geographical knowledge in Ecuador. Directing a critical analysis towards the ways maps of indigenous populations are produced, circulated, authorised and read provides a distinctive lens by which to explore postcolonial questions of belonging, rights and presence. The paper discusses how, despite the emergence of innovative maps, the plurinational project envisaged by indigenous cartographers remains stymied by a series of material, cultural and postcolonial limitations.

Abstract

Partiendo de un entendimiento de que los mapas de todo el territorio de un Estado-nación reflejan y regulan proyectos estatales y expresiones de identidad nacional, en vez de proveer información técnica detallada para la toma de decisiones, este artículo examina los mapas nacionales de raza-etnicidad producidos por el multiculturalismo encabezado por el Estado en Ecuador. Utilizando una cartografía a escala nacional como forma de examinar procesos en disputa que buscan la rearticulación del Estado, la ciudadanía y la nación, el material analiza las recientes transformaciones en la cartografía, la construcción nacional y los conocimientos geográficos en Ecuador. Desarrollando un análisis crítico acerca de la forma en que los mapas de las poblaciones indígenas son producidos, circulados, autorizados y leídos, el artículo provee un enfoque distintivo para explorar cuestiones poscoloniales de pertenencia, derechos y presencia. El artículo discute cómo, pese a la emergencia de mapas novedosos, el proyecto plurinacional concebido por cartógrafos indígenas permanece entrampado por una serie de limitaciones materiales, culturales y poscoloniales.

Abstract

O artigo examina os mapas nacionais de raça e etnicidade produzidos no âmbito do multiculturalismo promovido pelo estado equatoriano partindo do pressuposto que o mapa territorial do estado-nação reflete e regulamenta projetos de estado e expressões de identidades nacionais, ao contrário de fornecer informações técnicas para tomadas de decisões. Utilizando-se da cartografia produzida para escala nacional como caminho para estudar processos contestados de re-articulação do estado, do cidadão e da nação, o artigo analisa transformações recentes na cartografia, construção da nação e conhecimentos geográficos no Equador. Direcionar uma análise crítica quanto à maneira em que mapas de populações indígenas são produzidos, circulados, autorizados e interpretados fornece uma lente distinta pela qual é possível explorar questões pós-coloniais relacionadas ao pertencimento, aos direitos e à presença. O artigo discute como, a despeito do desenvolvimento de mapas inovativos, o projeto plurinacional envisionado por cartógrafos indígenas está bloqueado por uma série de limitações materiais, culturais e pós-coloniais.

Keywords

plurinationalismcartographynational mapsEcuadornation-stateneoliberalismplurinacionalismocartografíamapas nacionalesEcuadorEstado-naciónneoliberalismoplurinacionalismocartografiamapas nacionaisEquadorestado-naçãonéoliberalismo
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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , May 2010 , pp. 293 - 323
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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1 Brian Harley, The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography (Baltimore, 2001), p. 163.

2 Alba Moya, ETHNOS: Atlas etnográfico del Ecuador (Quito, 1998), back cover.

3 Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (2nd edition, London, 1991).

4 Harley, The New Nature of Maps.

5 ‘Multicultural’ here refers to reforms introduced by nation-states in efforts to recognise indigenous and black populations, often at the same time as neoliberal restructuring.

6 ‘Pluricultural’ refers to the characteristic of societies which contain numerous diverse cultural, ethnic and racial populations.

7 Quote from Roger Plant, ‘Indigenous Rights and Latin American Multiculturalism: Lessons from the Guatemalan Peace Process’, in Willem Assies, Gemma van der Haar and Andre Hoekema (eds.), The Challenge of Diversity: Indigenous Peoples and Reform of the State in Latin America (Amsterdam, 2001), p26; also Willem Assies, ‘Indigenous People and Reform of the State in Latin America’, in Assies et al. (eds.), The Challenge of Diversity, pp. 1–22; Rachel Sieder (ed.), Multiculturalism in Latin America: Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy (London, 2002); Rodolfo Stavenhagen, ‘Indigenous Peoples and the State in Latin America: An Ongoing Debate’ in Sieder (ed.), Multiculturalism in Latin America, pp. 24–44; Nancy Grey Postero, Now We Are Citizens: Indigenous Politics in Postmulticultural Bolivia (Stanford, 2007).

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15 On the broader context for Ecuadorean maps, see Radcliffe, Sarah A., ‘National Maps, Digitalisation and Neoliberal Cartographies: Transforming Nation-State Practices and Symbols in Postcolonial Ecuador’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, vol. 34, no. 4 (2009), pp. 426–44CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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17 Cartographic production related to the post-2008 Constitution is limited, hence this paper's focus on the 1998–2007 period.

18 Nacionalidades refer to ethno-cultural-linguistic populations (e.g. Shuar; Awa). Pueblos refer to culturally distinct sub-groups (e.g. Salasaka pueblo in Kichwa nacionalidad).

19 Yashar, Contesting Citizenship, defines the concept of citizenship regime.

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21 For example, Jaime Barberis Romero, Nociones generales de geopolítica (Quito, 1979); Julio Tobar Donoso, Derecho territorial ecuatoriano (Quito, 1979); Jaime Miranda Rebutti, Elementos de la cartografía básica (Quito, 1995); Luis Moreno Guerrero, Derecho territorial (Quito, 2004). For critical accounts, see Radcliffe, ‘Imagining the State as a Space’; Raymond Craib, Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes (London, 2004). David Hoosen (ed.), Geography and National Identity (Oxford, 1994) claims that Europe had the most intense coincidence of geography and nation-building in the nineteenth century, a view that displaces the co-constitutive role of Latin American geography. While the German state became a user of geography from 1870s, the Argentine Geographical Institute was established in 1879 (see Marcelo Escolar, S. Quintero and Carlos Rebarotti, ‘Geographical Identity and Patriotic Representation in Argentina’, in Hoosen (ed.), Geography and national identity, pp. 346–66), and Ecuador established the post of state geologist with considerable responsibility in cartography and spatial projects in 1870 (see Radcliffe, ‘Imagining the State as a Space’).

22 An Ecuadorean ‘national’ atlas is Nelson Gomez, Atlas del Ecuador: geografía y economía (Quito, 1990); compare Kent, Robert, ‘Homenaje a la patria: Latin American National Atlases’, Latin American Research Review, vol. 30, no. 1 (1995), pp. 256–65Google Scholar.

23 State military geographers, for instance, provided maps for Ecuador's first census enumerators in 1950. See Clark, Kim, ‘Race, ‘Culture’ and Mestizaje: The Statistical Construction of the Ecuadorian Nation, 1930–1950’, Journal of Historical Sociology, vol. 11, no. 2 (1998), p. 195CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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26 For example, Paulo de Carvalho Neto, Geografía del folklore ecuatoriano (Quito, 1967). Critical accounts are Crain, Mary, ‘The Social Construction of National Identity in Highland Ecuador’, Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 63, no. 1 (1990), pp. 43–59CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Radcliffe, Sarah A., ‘Imaginative Geographies, Post-colonialism and National Identities: Contemporary Discourses of the Nation in Ecuador’, Ecumene, vol. 3, no. 1 (1996), pp. 21–42CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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28 Escolar et al., ‘Geographical Identity and Patriotic Representation in Argentina’, p. 352, argue that, in nineteenth-century Argentina, geography was perceived as a humanistic discipline that could ‘relate the political community with the cultural nation through the collective internalisation of a territorial identity’. See also Radcliffe and Westwood, Remaking the Nation; Radcliffe, ‘Imaginative Geographies.’

29 Anderson, Imagined communities.

30 Radcliffe, ‘National Maps, Digitalisation and Neoliberal Cartographies’.

31 Interviews, 2007.

32 Alberto Chirif P. García and R. Chase Smith, El indígena y su territorio (Lima, 1991).

33 Walter Mignolo, The Idea of Latin America (Oxford, 2005), p. 157.

34 Author's interview with Kurikamak Yupanki, lawyer, director of Fundación Tinku, Quito, July 2007.

35 Craib, Cartographic Mexico, p. 23.

36 Interview, Yupanki, 2007.

37 Durán Ballen's government (1992–96) established a national indigenous affairs secretariat; the short-lived Abdula Bucarám presidency (1996–97) appointed CONAIE's leader to a new indigenous ministry. After Bucarám's departure, the indigenous movement's legitimacy carried CONAIE's demand for the creation of the indigenous development council. Afro-Ecuadoreans have an equivalent development council, the Corporación de Desarrollo Afroecuatoriano (CODAE) and statistical service, the Sistema de Indicadores Sociales del Pueblo Afroecuatoriano (System of Social Indicators for the Afro-Ecuadorean People, SISPAE).

38 On institutional and professional changes, see Robert Andolina, Nina Laurie and Sarah A. Radcliffe, Indigenous Development in the Andes: Culture, Power and Transnationalism (Durham NC, 2009). On transnational notions of multiculturalism behind indigenous professionalisation, see Laurie, Nina, Andolina, Robert and Radcliffe, Sarah, ‘Indigenous Professionalization: Transnational Social Reproduction in the Andes’, Antipode, vol. 35, no. 3 (2003), pp. 463–91CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

39 Literally, the Development Council of the Nationalities and Peoples of Ecuador, but as it does not include Afro-Ecuadoreans it is usually referred to in English as the Indigenous Development Council.

40 Research interview with Isidoro Quindé, CODENPE, Quito, April 2000. Also see www.codenpe.gov.ec/sidenpe.htm.

41 Research interview with Guillermo Churuchumbi of CODENPE, Quito, March 2000.

42 This project, the Proyecto de Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas y Negros del Ecuador (Development Project of the Indigenous and Black Peoples of Ecuador, PRODEPINE), became a model for similar projects elsewhere; see Offen, ‘The Territorial Turn.’

43 Sarah A. Radcliffe and Nina Laurie, ‘Culture and Development: Taking Indigenous Culture Seriously in the Andes’; on PRODEPINE, see Robert Andolina et al., Indigenous Development in the Andes.

44 Andolina et al, Indigenous Development in the Andes. Compare Hale, ‘Does Multiculturalism Menace?’, Grey Postero, Now We Are Citizens.

45 The parish is Ecuador's smallest politico-administrative unit. Social capital was measured by the proxy of numbers of local civil society organisations, as used in World Bank social development programmes.

46 Pilar Larreamendy, ‘Indigenous Networks: Politics and Development Interconnectivity among the Shuar in Ecuador’, unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Cambridge, 2003, p. 127; interview, Yupanki 2007.

47 The PRODEPINE project contained two other mapping procedures, outside this paper's scope due to their local – rather than national – goals. First, land titling for indigenous and Afro-Ecuadorean groups required accurate topographic maps. This project component demonstrated strong continuities with earlier indigenous land-claim activities, although the scale of claims rose considerably. Some indigenous federations had cartographers, due to historical land claims, trained in global positioning systems (GPS) by the NGO FEPP or the German development agency GTZ. Claimants were asked to clear land boundaries of vegetation and put markers down between communities or along rivers. Project staff then confirmed and mapped the boundaries, using GPS to make detailed topographic diagrams. Through local knowledge, claimants were often accurate in estimating the number of hectares involved. A total of 253,000 hectares were identified and mapped for indigenous and Afro-Ecuadorean beneficiaries, mostly in the Andes. Additional information such as land yet to be titled and a time-series showing rates of land titling was collated centrally. PRODEPINE also generated maps using participatory methodologies to collate baseline data for local development plans. The indigenous development council welcomed participatory mapping as a forerunner of so-called ‘Andean community planning’ (interview with Galo Ramón, PRODEPINE Technical Director, Quito, April 2000).

48 Herlihy, Peter and Knapp, Gregory, ‘Maps of, by and for the Peoples of Latin America’, Human Organization, vol. 62, no. 4 (2003), pp. 303–14CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Offen, ‘The Territorial Turn.’

49 Lucy Santacruz, ‘La cartografía social como herramienta de investigación colectiva’. Presentation at workshop ‘El uso de la geografía en el Ecuador: logros, perspectivas y retos’ (Quito, April 2008).

50 Larreamendy, ‘Indigenous Networks’, p. 127.

51 Anderson, Imagined Communities, p. 174.

52 On ethnic mapping before multiculturalism, see Gregory Knapp, ‘Ethnic mapping’, in Karl Offen and Jordana Dym (eds.), Mapping Latin America: Space and Society 1492–2000 (Chicago, forthcoming), and Gregory Knapp, Geografía quichua de la Sierra ecuatoriana (Quito, 1987).

53 UNESCO, Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues: Sixth session. Information received from the United Nations System and Other Inter-governmental Organisations (Geneva, 2007); United Nations, System of Indicators for Nationalities and Pueblos of Ecuador, workshop on data collection and disaggregation for indigenous peoples (New York, January 2004).

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55 CODENPE's critiques are expressed in ‘Criterios para la definición de indicadores’, www.codenpe.gov.ec/sidenpe.htm, accessed 27 March 2008.

56 On Ecuador's racialised geographies, see Mary Weismantel, Cholas and Pishtacos: Stories of Race and Sex in the Andes (Chicago, 2001), Radcliffe and Westwood, Remaking the Nation.

57 United Nations, System of Indicators.

58 The Ecuadorean debate is characterised by an engagement with interculturalism (see Catherine Walsh, Interculturalidad, estado, sociedad (Quito, 2009)), which in certain respects speaks to Bolivia's articulation of postmulticultural citizenship (Grey Postero, Now We Are Citizens). However, the relation between these two approaches, and their relationship with the demographic and political characteristics of each country, lie beyond the scope of this paper.

59 Neil Smith and Cindi Katz, ‘Grounding Metaphor: Towards a Spatialised Politics’, in Michael Keith and Steven Pile (eds.), Place and the Politics of Identity (London, 1993), p. 78.

60 Ecuador's state statistical service can be found at www.siise.gov.ec.

61 United Nations, System of Indicators, p. 3.

62 Interview with Jorge Condor, SIDENPE staff member, Quito, 2007.

63 UNESCO, Permanent Forum, p. 12.

64 United Nations, System of Indicators, p. 2.

65 Interviews with Reinaldo Cervantes, SIISE Director, Quito, July 2007; and Condor, 2007.

66 On the IGM, see Radcliffe and Westwood, Remaking the Nation, pp. 62–7; Radcliffe, ‘Imaginative Geographies’.

67 On de-centring of military geographical knowledge-as-power, see Radcliffe, ‘National Maps, Digitalisation and Neoliberal Cartographies’.

68 CODENPE [Consejo de Desarrollo de las Nacionalidades y Pueblos del Ecuador], SIDENPE – Sistema información del CODENPE. Accessed on www.codenpe.gov.ec/sidenpe.htm on 27 March 2008 (Quito, 2004), p. 5.

69 CODENPE, SIDENPE, pp. 6–7.

70 Interview, Condor, 2007.

71 Manuela Tomei, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples: An Ethnic Audit of Selected Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (Geneva, 2005), p. 44.

72 Interview, Condor 2007.

73 UNESCO, Permanent Forum, p. 12.

74 Ibid., p. 27.

75 CODENPE's department of communications has begun to work with census officials to prepare the 2011 census by devising a participatory process (interview, Andrés Andrango, Kitu Kara representative on CODENPE governing council, 2007). Afro-Ecuadoreans were also involved in this process via CODAE.

76 For this reason, Latin American indigenous movements pursue new census maps, such as in Guatemala. In Bolivia, detailed information on populations defined in ethnic and linguistic terms was gathered in a geographical information system. See Xavier Albó and Ramiro Molina, Gama étnica y linguística de la población boliviana (La Paz, 2006).

77 Neoliberal multiculturalism is also produced in university education and in professional training programmes. See Laurie et al., ‘Indigenous Professionalization’; Andolina et al., Indigenous Development in the Andes.

78 On maps produced under mestizaje, see Crain, ‘The Social Construction of National Identity’; Radcliffe, ‘Imaginative Geographies’.

79 From 1988, Ecuador's indigenous movement had autonomous responsibility for the intercultural bilingual education system. In 2009, Correa's government moved to recentralise the national educational system.

80 This point and other substantive information (unless indicated otherwise) about Ecuarunari's map comes from the author's interview with Mario Bustos, editorial coordinator of the map, Quito, September 2007.

81 I acknowledge production of this map by the Departamento de Comunicación Intercultural of CODENPE, with coordination of Ana Lucía Tasiguano, design Wayra Coro, photos Departamento de Comunicación CODENPE, Ayañawi Films, 2008.

82 Compare Andrea Pequeño, Imágenes en disputa: representaciones de mujeres indígenas ecuatorianas (Quito, 2006), p. 56.

83 ECUARUNARI, CONAIE, DINEIB, Plan, UNICEF, and the Spanish bilateral cooperation agency co-produced this map, under Mario Bustos' editorial coordination. CONAIE provided 16 images for the map.

84 Mapmaking in this context represents an ongoing process of using different communication strategies to provide information, raise awareness and publicise ethnic marginalisation.

85 Some people at the national workshop made additional drawings, but these were not included.

86 See Gregory, Geographical Imaginations, p. 101–5, on spatialisation.

87 Interview, Bustos, 2007.

88 Ibid.

89 Pequeño, Imágenes en disputa, p. 54.

90 Hale, ‘Neoliberal Multiculturalism’.

91 Harley, The New Nature of Maps.

92 It also frames the (different reasons for) black erasure from multicultural maps, as these populations have less political leverage to shift dominant power relations.

93 Harley, The New Nature of Maps, p. 158.

94 Pequeño, Imágenes en disputa, p. 39.

95 Ibid., p. 41.

96 Interview, Bustos, 2007.

97 Li, Tanya Murray, ‘Articulating Indigenous Identity in Indonesia: Resource Politics and the Tribal Slot’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 42, no. 1 (2000), pp. 151–3Google Scholar.

98 Watts, Michael, ‘Development and Governmentality’, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, vol. 24, no. 1 (2003), pp. 6–34CrossRefGoogle Scholar, speaks of governable spaces in terms of Nigeria's authoritarian government and petro-capitalism. In Ecuador, governable spaces are produced at the intersection of specific racialisations and neoliberal multiculturalism.

99 For instance, a different CODENPE map of 2003 shows no physiological features; instead, faces are circles in orange, purple, black or pink. Although this hints at a plurinational imaginary, the power of whiteness/mestizaje remains unmarked.

100 Interview, Bustos, 2007, 3.

101 Anderson, Imagined communities talks about maps anticipating nationhood.

102 CODENPE and SIDENPE created the 2003 map under Dmitri Oña's editorial coordination. Likewise, the 2001 CODENPE map ‘Nationalities and Pueblos of Ecuador’ lists 13 nationalities and 14 pueblos and states that ‘Ecuador is a multilingual and pluricultural country’, echoing the 1998 Constitution's opening foundational statement. Pequeño, Imágenes en disputa, pp. 47–8, discusses this map's gender politics.

103 Moreover, SIDENPE's expertise in updating data reinvigorated demands for appropriate census methodologies.

104 See Craib, Cartographic Mexico.

105 See, e.g., Pequeño, Imágenes en disputa.

106 Interview, Bustos, 2007.

107 For example, the CODENPE map (Figure 3) uses stylised drawings of un-paired male and female figures placed around the map, each with a different type of clothing (thereby breaking gender's association with clothing, and essentialised ethnic identities).

108 Interview with Luis Maldonado by Daniel Mato, Quito, Ecuador, 30 July 2003, http://gp.cnti.ve/site/red.org.ve/view/entrevistamaldonado.php, accessed 4 July 2008.

109 The pueblo Kitu Kara, for instance, lives in both rural and urban areas.

110 An ECUARUNARI initiative in the early 2000s attempted to reverse this (interview, Andrango, 2007).

111 Harley, The New Nature of Maps, pp. 154–6.

112 This relates also to the international principles, rules and conventions for establishing the grid and coordinates for a map. Even Ecuador's highly politicised cartographic productions for schools and the public rest upon these conventions.

113 Jorge Phillips, Sistema de inventario y titulación de tierras de INDA (Quito, 1998); Radcliffe, ‘National Maps, Digitalisation and Neoliberal Cartographies’.

114 Interview with Hernán Velásquez, Director of Geographical Information Systems, Ministry of Agriculture, Quito, September 2007.

115 CODENPE, SIDENPE, p. 5.

116 One key influence on these participatory methods comprises the so-called mapas parlantes that originated with Paulo Freire's popular education before being adapted by Fals Borda in Colombia during the 1970s. See Santacruz, ‘La cartografía social’.

117 Peter Herlihy and Gregory Knapp, ‘Maps of, by and for the Peoples of Latin America’.

118 Pratt, Geraldine, ‘Spatial Metaphors and Speaking Positions’, Environment and Planning D, vol. 10, no. 3 (1992), pp. 241–4CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Neil Smith and Cindi Katz, ‘Grounding Metaphor’.

119 Hale, ‘Does Multiculturalism Menace?’, p. 487; Sieder, Multiculturalism, p. 1; Assies, The Challenge of Diversity, p. 19.

120 Hale, ‘Does Multiculturalism Menace?’, and ‘Neoliberal Multiculturalism’.

121 Hale, ‘Neoliberal Multiculturalism’, pp. 11, 20–4.

122 Matthew Sparke, In the Space of Theory (London, 2005).

123 Also Andolina, Robert, Radcliffe, Sarah and Laurie, Nina, ‘Development and Culture: Transnational Identity Making in Latin America’, Political Geography, vol. 24, no. 6 (2005), pp. 678–702CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Joel Wainwright, Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and the Maya (Oxford, 2008).

124 On historic dimensions, see Juan Regalado, ‘Contenidos del dominio geográfico en Ecuador durante el siglo XIX: un ensayo interpretativo’, paper presented at 1st Ecuadorian Anthropology Congress (Quito, October 1996); Margarita Serje, El revés de la nación: territorios salvajes, fronteras y tierras de nadie (Bogotá, 2005).

125 See Scott, David, ‘The Aftermaths of Sovereignty: Postcolonial Criticism and the Claims of Political Modernity’, Social Text, vol. 48, no. 3 (1996), pp. 1–26CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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