Ecuador as Victim: The Development of the Discourse on the Territorial Dispute with Peru, 1860-1981
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2018-08-29
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This thesis investigates the historical trajectory of the dominant Ecuadorian narrative of its territorial conflict with Peru. Through qualitative discourse analysis of monographs, pamphlets, and textbooks dedicated to the long conflict, it shows the development of a discussion with its own consistency and internal logic, a discourse in the Foucauldian sense. Above all, this discourse possessed a nation-building logic in which Peru was depicted as its main existential threat and nemesis. Thanks to this discourse, the long and complex territorial dispute became a means to achieve and strengthen national cohesion, and to strengthen the idea of Ecuadorian nation. Given that the political, cultural, and economic rapprochement that Ecuador and Peru experienced after the final peace settlement of 1998 contributed to a decades-long radical reformulation of the idea of Ecuadorian national community, this thesis aims to contribute to the understanding of Ecuadorian nationalism by analyzing one of its key aspects in relation to the country’s territory and an external other.
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Ecuador, Peru, Latin American History, Ecuador-Peru Conflict, Latin American Studies, Discourse Analysis, Territorial Disputes, Nationalism, Ecuador -- Boundaries -- Peru, Critical Discourse Analysis, Amazon River Basin, Oriente (Ecuador), Ecuadorian History, Nation State, Ecuador -- Foreign Relations -- Peru, History of Ideas
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Lalama Vargas, A. L. (2018). Ecuador as Victim: The Development of the Discourse on the Territorial Dispute with Peru, 1860-1981 (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. Calgary, AB doi:10.11575/PRISM/32893