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ID33149
NAMEP Altmann
GIVEN NAMESP
FAMILY NAMEAltmann
SIGNATUREALTMANN P
AFFILIATIONSCentral University of Ecuador
ORCID0000-0002-5036-2988
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS54
WORKS AS AUTHOR27
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1903
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4
  • Historia de la sociología y las ciencias sociales en América Latina

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Latin American Research Review•2026

  • Challenging Decolonial Political Concepts

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Development and Change•2026

    The Indigenous movement in Ecuador has a long history of developing decolonial political concepts. Demands such as territorial autonomy, recognition of Indigenous nationalities, plurinationality, interculturality, or Sumak Kawsay/Buen Vivir/good life extend beyond the defence of Indigenous peoples’ rights and challenge the European model of nation state, capitalism, racism and the divide between culture and nature. This contribution will offer a …

  • Ecological Natives and Indigenous Class Warriors

    P Altmann•BOOK•Ecological Natives and Indigenous…•2025

    The Indigenous movement in Ecuador was one of the most influential social movements in Latin America during the 1990s. It had a high mobilization capability, formed broad alliances, and had a clear discourse. However, since the early 2000s, it has been in crisis due to problems with national leadership. This only changed in October 2019 when a national uprising led to the movement’s reappearance in political attention, the reconstruction of allia…

  • Indigenous Movements in the Andes in the Twenty-First Century

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Latin American Research Review•2024

    This essay reviews the following works:Indianidad evanescente en los Andes de Ecuador. By Víctor Bretón Solo de Zaldívar. Quito: FLACSO Ecuador; Ediciones Universitat de Lleida, 2022. Pp. xxxix + 372. €22.00 paperback, free downloadable e-book. ISBN: 9789978676301.Indigene Autonomie in Lateinamerika: Zwischen Selbstbestimmung und staatlicher Kontrolle. By Michael Fackler. Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript, 2021. Pp. 322. €60.00 hardcover, €60.00 e-b…

  • Ecuadorian Sociology or the Institutionalization of a Strange Discipline

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Revue d Histoire des Sciences…•2023•References: 5

    Sociology in Ecuador has existed as an academic discipline since 1915 and since the 1960s as a degree program. Those over 100 years are marked by several harsh ruptures and less visible changes in general tendencies. One main factor related to both ruptures and tendencies are the institutions and institutionalizations of and around sociology. They include universities, professional or cultural associations, journals, the state—but also national a…

  • New classics for the new science - re-reading the basis of sociology in Ecuador until the 1950s

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Tapuya Latin American Science…•2023•References: 11

    Professional sociology in Ecuador started with the first chair in sociology in 1915. This led to a series of foundational texts during the 1920s and 30s that sought to define what sociology is while applying it to core aspects of Ecuadorian society. While this time was – in the Global North- marked by a growing centralization on the theories of Durkheim and Weber, the Ecuadorian sociologists preferred other thinkers in order to understand society…

  • El saber propio como emancipación. El yachay tinkuy entre sociología y movimiento indígena en el Ecuador

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Revista Sarance•2022

    La sociología académica en el Ecuador es, desde comienzos del siglo XX, productora de conocimiento legítimo sobre la sociedad. Este conocimiento parte de una concepción previa que refuerza mecanismos de exclusión. Lo indígena es entendido en términos de racialización hegemónica, lo cual lleva a que la población indígena sea considerada como necesitada de protección paternalista y, en consecuencia, el movimiento indígena sea invisibilizado. Con el…

  • Between Justice and Money

    Open Access•Katiuska King, P Altmann•ARTICLE•International Journal for the…•2022

  • Inequality in Ecuadorian Sociology of the 1950s and 1960s

    P Altmann•ARTICLE•Global Intellectual History•2022•References: 4

    Heavy inequalities mark Ecuador. Ecuadorian sociology was always aware of this. Inequality is a central political language of academic sociology in Ecuador and the main field of contact with global sociology, politics, and other local traditions. This is why the treatment of inequality by sociologists in Ecuador shows in an exemplary manner the conceptual shifts taking place – including the local relation to global tendencies in the sense of a gl…

  • Los últimos spencerianos. Hacia un canon de la primera sociología ecuatoriana

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Íconos - Revista de Ciencias…•2021

    La sociología como disciplina académica comienza en el Ecuador hacia 1915. La creación de la Cátedra de Sociología en la Facultad de Jurisprudencia de la Universidad Central del Ecuador institucionalizó una determinada forma de pensar la sociedad, incluyendo un canon de clásicos en el área. La formación de una escuela de pensamiento que se extendió hasta la década de los 50 perpetuó esta institucionalización particular, que ocasionó problemas cua…

  • Verdades y mentiras sobre la Covid-19 en Ecuador

    Open Access•P Altmann, Rafael Polo et al.•ARTICLE•Sociedade e Cultura•2021

    La pandemia de COVID-19 ha significado una crisis importante para el Ecuador. Afectó gravemente a la situación económica de la población e implicó decisiones inmediatas en materia educativa, así como incertidumbre y expectativas negativas en lo laboral. Como experimento social involuntario, mostró los quiebres en tres tipos de conocimientos: el conocimiento práctico y cotidiano de la población, el conocimiento científico y sobre la ciencia, y el …

  • Localization and institutionalization of science

    Open Access•P Altmann•CHAPTER•Wissen in der Transnationalisierung•2020

  • Descolonizar la sociología? Reflexiones a partir de una experiencia práctica

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Foro de Educación•2020

    La sociología decolonial ha sido un proyecto de un grupo considerable de pensadores. Existen muchos textos que contribuyen a una crítica de las raíces coloniales e imperiales de la sociología, de su institucionalización cuestionable, de sus inherentes estructuras de poder, o de su persistente eurocentrismo. No obstante, generalmente, estos textos dejan del lado la enseñanza de sociología, especialmente, si se da en el Sur Global. El presente text…

  • Eleven days in October 2019 – the indigenous movement in the recent mobilizations in Ecuador

    P Altmann•ARTICLE•International Journal of Sociology•2020•Cited by: 3

    Since the 1990s, the indigenous movement has been the most active social movement in Ecuador. However, the years after 2000 were marked by rather small and punctual mobilizations, instead of big national uprisings. This changed with the national strike of October 2019 that was partially led by a rejuvenated indigenous movement with new leaders and a renewed discourse that build a broad alliance of diverse social actors and could, yet again, commu…

  • The Commons as Colonisation - The Well-Intentioned Appropriation of Buen Vivir

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Bulletin of Latin American Research•2020•Cited by: 21•References: 11

    The discussions on alternatives to capitalism led to an interest in other cultures with different ways of managing property. Concepts such as Buen Vivir are (re-)discovered and integrated into discourses run mainly by the Global North. This implies an invisibilisation and colonisation of movements, organisations, and people as political actors. This will be traced with the case of Buen Vivir (Sumak Kawsay) in Ecuador, a political concept of indig…

  • Timmo Krüger, Das Hegemonieprojekt der ökologischen Modernisierung

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•International Sociology•2019

  • Los pueblos indígenas en el buen vivir global, un concepto como herramienta de inclusión de los excluidos

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Revista iberoamericana de…•2019•Cited by: 4

    Indigenous peoples have been and still are largely excluded from the most important areas of modern society. They cannot participate adequately in politics, economics, education, etc. This exclusion is linked to colonialism and the coloniality of power and manifests itself in the term «indigenous» itself. The indigenous movement, especially since the 1970s, showed a clear awareness of this contradiction. It took advantage of the oppressive catego…

  • Ecologists by default? How the indigenous movement in Ecuador became protector of nature

    P Altmann•ARTICLE•Innovation The European Journal…•2019•Cited by: 4•References: 6

    Since several decades, indigenous peoples are seen as stewards of nature. This is not only an attribution by Western/Northern academics but rather the result of conscious political choices undertaken by organizations related to those peoples. From a certain moment on, some indigenous organizations integrated nature-related contents into their functioning and demands. In the Ecuadorian case, it is easily traceable when ecology entered the discours…

  • José Benjamín Inuca Lechón

    Open Access•P Altmann, Philipp J Altmann et al.•ARTICLE•Antropología Cuadernos de…•2019

    Benjamín Inuca fue un líder histórico del movimiento indígena-designación que le resultaba jocosa-que participó en diferentes organizaciones

  • Sumak Kawsay as an Element of Local Decolonization in Ecuador

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Latin American Research Review•2017

    The concept of sumak kawsay , buen vivir or “good life”—in Bolivia, suma qamaña , or vivir bien —has been widely diffused on an international level since the Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly in 2007–2008 and the Bolivian one in 2006–2009. Good life has been understood as an alternative to capitalist modernizing development that is based on the indigenous ideal of harmony between individual, society, and nature. Nevertheless, in the usage of the in…

  • Macht und Theorie. Wie Macht erforschen

    P Altmann•ARTICLE•GAIA - Ecological Perspectives…•2017

    Reaktion auf zwei Beiträge zum Thema ,,Macht in Umweltpolitik und Umweltforschung” in GAIA: L Partzsch 24/1 (2015), A. Brunnengräber 26/1 (2017)

  • Social Movements in the Global South

    Open Access•P Altmann, Deniz Günce Demirhisar et al.•ARTICLE•Emulations - Revue de sciences…•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 4

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  • Una breve historia de las organizaciones del Movimiento Indígena del Ecuador

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Antropología Cuadernos de…•2017•Cited by: 1

    El movimiento indígena del Ecuador está compuesto por diferentes organizaciones indígenas que compiten entre sí por miembros y recursos. Estos actores encarnan diferentes intereses y tendencias que a veces son contradictorias, dadas las distintas concepciones políticas, étnicas y sociales que se manifiestan en el interior de las organizaciones, por lo tanto hablar del movimiento indígena sin considerar esta diversidad organizativa resultaría un a…

  • Buen Vivir como propuesta política integral

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Mundos Plurales - Revista…•2016•Cited by: 7•References: 3

    El Sumak Kawsay o Buen Vivir ha recibido mucha atención desde su integración en la Constitución ecuatoriana del 2008 y –como Suma Qamaña– en la boliviana del 2009. En este contexto ha sido entendido como una alternativa a las concepciones capitalistas del desarrollo como crecimiento. Así adquirió un rol de alternativa semi-utópica dentro de un discurso de “la izquierda ecologista” que se interesa más en buscar conexiones y tradiciones de este con…

  • Plurinationality and Interculturality in Ecuador

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Iberoamericana – Nordic Journal…•2014•Cited by: 2•References: 1

    Desde la década de los 1980, las organizaciones del movimiento indígena en Ecuador lucharon no sólo por derechos económicos, políticos o culturales, sino además por una reconstrucción de la sociedad y del Estado ecuatoriano. Esta reconstrucción pasa por conceptos bastante específicos como Interculturalidad y Plurinacionalidad. Aún si estos conceptos fueron adoptados en la Constitución del 2008, desde la perspectiva del movimiento indígena, todaví…

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  • The Commons as Colonisation - The Well-Intentioned Appropriation of Buen Vivir

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Bulletin of Latin American Research•2020•Cited by: 21•References: 11

    The discussions on alternatives to capitalism led to an interest in other cultures with different ways of managing property. Concepts such as Buen Vivir are (re-)discovered and integrated into discourses run mainly by the Global North. This implies an invisibilisation and colonisation of movements, organisations, and people as political actors. This will be traced with the case of Buen Vivir (Sumak Kawsay) in Ecuador, a political concept of indig…

  • Simmel's Philosophy of Money

    P Altmann, Sílvia Altmann et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•1903•Cited by: 11

  • Buen Vivir como propuesta política integral

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Mundos Plurales - Revista…•2016•Cited by: 7•References: 3

    El Sumak Kawsay o Buen Vivir ha recibido mucha atención desde su integración en la Constitución ecuatoriana del 2008 y –como Suma Qamaña– en la boliviana del 2009. En este contexto ha sido entendido como una alternativa a las concepciones capitalistas del desarrollo como crecimiento. Así adquirió un rol de alternativa semi-utópica dentro de un discurso de “la izquierda ecologista” que se interesa más en buscar conexiones y tradiciones de este con…

  • Los pueblos indígenas en el buen vivir global, un concepto como herramienta de inclusión de los excluidos

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Revista iberoamericana de…•2019•Cited by: 4

    Indigenous peoples have been and still are largely excluded from the most important areas of modern society. They cannot participate adequately in politics, economics, education, etc. This exclusion is linked to colonialism and the coloniality of power and manifests itself in the term «indigenous» itself. The indigenous movement, especially since the 1970s, showed a clear awareness of this contradiction. It took advantage of the oppressive catego…

  • Ecologists by default? How the indigenous movement in Ecuador became protector of nature

    P Altmann•ARTICLE•Innovation The European Journal…•2019•Cited by: 4•References: 6

    Since several decades, indigenous peoples are seen as stewards of nature. This is not only an attribution by Western/Northern academics but rather the result of conscious political choices undertaken by organizations related to those peoples. From a certain moment on, some indigenous organizations integrated nature-related contents into their functioning and demands. In the Ecuadorian case, it is easily traceable when ecology entered the discours…

  • Eleven days in October 2019 – the indigenous movement in the recent mobilizations in Ecuador

    P Altmann•ARTICLE•International Journal of Sociology•2020•Cited by: 3

    Since the 1990s, the indigenous movement has been the most active social movement in Ecuador. However, the years after 2000 were marked by rather small and punctual mobilizations, instead of big national uprisings. This changed with the national strike of October 2019 that was partially led by a rejuvenated indigenous movement with new leaders and a renewed discourse that build a broad alliance of diverse social actors and could, yet again, commu…

  • Plurinationality and Interculturality in Ecuador

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Iberoamericana – Nordic Journal…•2014•Cited by: 2•References: 1

    Desde la década de los 1980, las organizaciones del movimiento indígena en Ecuador lucharon no sólo por derechos económicos, políticos o culturales, sino además por una reconstrucción de la sociedad y del Estado ecuatoriano. Esta reconstrucción pasa por conceptos bastante específicos como Interculturalidad y Plurinacionalidad. Aún si estos conceptos fueron adoptados en la Constitución del 2008, desde la perspectiva del movimiento indígena, todaví…

  • Social Movements in the Global South

    Open Access•P Altmann, Deniz Günce Demirhisar et al.•ARTICLE•Emulations - Revue de sciences…•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    .

  • Una breve historia de las organizaciones del Movimiento Indígena del Ecuador

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Antropología Cuadernos de…•2017•Cited by: 1

    El movimiento indígena del Ecuador está compuesto por diferentes organizaciones indígenas que compiten entre sí por miembros y recursos. Estos actores encarnan diferentes intereses y tendencias que a veces son contradictorias, dadas las distintas concepciones políticas, étnicas y sociales que se manifiestan en el interior de las organizaciones, por lo tanto hablar del movimiento indígena sin considerar esta diversidad organizativa resultaría un a…

  • Simmel's Philosophy of Money

    P Altmann, Sílvia Altmann et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•1903•Cited by: 11

  • Die Indigenenbewegung in Ecuador

    Open Access•P Altmann•BOOK•Die Indigenenbewegung in Ecuador•2013•References: 12

    Die Indigenenbewegung ist trotz ihrer enormen Diversität ein wichtiger sozialer Akteur in der ecuadorianischen Gesellschaft. Seit einer Sattelzeit zwischen Mitte der 1970er und Mitte der 1980er Jahre hat sie einen Diskurs herausgebildet, der identitäre mit klassistischen Positionen verbindet und um die politischen Begriffe indigene Nationalität, Territorialität, Plurinationalität, Interkulturalität und Gutes Leben herum aufgebaut ist. Philipp Alt…

  • Plurinationality and Interculturality in Ecuador

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Iberoamericana – Nordic Journal…•2014•Cited by: 2•References: 1

    Desde la década de los 1980, las organizaciones del movimiento indígena en Ecuador lucharon no sólo por derechos económicos, políticos o culturales, sino además por una reconstrucción de la sociedad y del Estado ecuatoriano. Esta reconstrucción pasa por conceptos bastante específicos como Interculturalidad y Plurinacionalidad. Aún si estos conceptos fueron adoptados en la Constitución del 2008, desde la perspectiva del movimiento indígena, todaví…

  • Buen Vivir como propuesta política integral

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Mundos Plurales - Revista…•2016•Cited by: 7•References: 3

    El Sumak Kawsay o Buen Vivir ha recibido mucha atención desde su integración en la Constitución ecuatoriana del 2008 y –como Suma Qamaña– en la boliviana del 2009. En este contexto ha sido entendido como una alternativa a las concepciones capitalistas del desarrollo como crecimiento. Así adquirió un rol de alternativa semi-utópica dentro de un discurso de “la izquierda ecologista” que se interesa más en buscar conexiones y tradiciones de este con…

  • Sumak Kawsay as an Element of Local Decolonization in Ecuador

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Latin American Research Review•2017

    The concept of sumak kawsay , buen vivir or “good life”—in Bolivia, suma qamaña , or vivir bien —has been widely diffused on an international level since the Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly in 2007–2008 and the Bolivian one in 2006–2009. Good life has been understood as an alternative to capitalist modernizing development that is based on the indigenous ideal of harmony between individual, society, and nature. Nevertheless, in the usage of the in…

  • Macht und Theorie. Wie Macht erforschen

    P Altmann•ARTICLE•GAIA - Ecological Perspectives…•2017

    Reaktion auf zwei Beiträge zum Thema ,,Macht in Umweltpolitik und Umweltforschung” in GAIA: L Partzsch 24/1 (2015), A. Brunnengräber 26/1 (2017)

  • Social Movements in the Global South

    Open Access•P Altmann, Deniz Günce Demirhisar et al.•ARTICLE•Emulations - Revue de sciences…•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    .

  • Una breve historia de las organizaciones del Movimiento Indígena del Ecuador

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Antropología Cuadernos de…•2017•Cited by: 1

    El movimiento indígena del Ecuador está compuesto por diferentes organizaciones indígenas que compiten entre sí por miembros y recursos. Estos actores encarnan diferentes intereses y tendencias que a veces son contradictorias, dadas las distintas concepciones políticas, étnicas y sociales que se manifiestan en el interior de las organizaciones, por lo tanto hablar del movimiento indígena sin considerar esta diversidad organizativa resultaría un a…

  • Timmo Krüger, Das Hegemonieprojekt der ökologischen Modernisierung

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•International Sociology•2019

  • Los pueblos indígenas en el buen vivir global, un concepto como herramienta de inclusión de los excluidos

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Revista iberoamericana de…•2019•Cited by: 4

    Indigenous peoples have been and still are largely excluded from the most important areas of modern society. They cannot participate adequately in politics, economics, education, etc. This exclusion is linked to colonialism and the coloniality of power and manifests itself in the term «indigenous» itself. The indigenous movement, especially since the 1970s, showed a clear awareness of this contradiction. It took advantage of the oppressive catego…

  • Ecologists by default? How the indigenous movement in Ecuador became protector of nature

    P Altmann•ARTICLE•Innovation The European Journal…•2019•Cited by: 4•References: 6

    Since several decades, indigenous peoples are seen as stewards of nature. This is not only an attribution by Western/Northern academics but rather the result of conscious political choices undertaken by organizations related to those peoples. From a certain moment on, some indigenous organizations integrated nature-related contents into their functioning and demands. In the Ecuadorian case, it is easily traceable when ecology entered the discours…

  • José Benjamín Inuca Lechón

    Open Access•P Altmann, Philipp J Altmann et al.•ARTICLE•Antropología Cuadernos de…•2019

    Benjamín Inuca fue un líder histórico del movimiento indígena-designación que le resultaba jocosa-que participó en diferentes organizaciones

  • Localization and institutionalization of science

    Open Access•P Altmann•CHAPTER•Wissen in der Transnationalisierung•2020

  • Descolonizar la sociología? Reflexiones a partir de una experiencia práctica

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Foro de Educación•2020

    La sociología decolonial ha sido un proyecto de un grupo considerable de pensadores. Existen muchos textos que contribuyen a una crítica de las raíces coloniales e imperiales de la sociología, de su institucionalización cuestionable, de sus inherentes estructuras de poder, o de su persistente eurocentrismo. No obstante, generalmente, estos textos dejan del lado la enseñanza de sociología, especialmente, si se da en el Sur Global. El presente text…

  • Eleven days in October 2019 – the indigenous movement in the recent mobilizations in Ecuador

    P Altmann•ARTICLE•International Journal of Sociology•2020•Cited by: 3

    Since the 1990s, the indigenous movement has been the most active social movement in Ecuador. However, the years after 2000 were marked by rather small and punctual mobilizations, instead of big national uprisings. This changed with the national strike of October 2019 that was partially led by a rejuvenated indigenous movement with new leaders and a renewed discourse that build a broad alliance of diverse social actors and could, yet again, commu…

  • The Commons as Colonisation - The Well-Intentioned Appropriation of Buen Vivir

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Bulletin of Latin American Research•2020•Cited by: 21•References: 11

    The discussions on alternatives to capitalism led to an interest in other cultures with different ways of managing property. Concepts such as Buen Vivir are (re-)discovered and integrated into discourses run mainly by the Global North. This implies an invisibilisation and colonisation of movements, organisations, and people as political actors. This will be traced with the case of Buen Vivir (Sumak Kawsay) in Ecuador, a political concept of indig…

  • Los últimos spencerianos. Hacia un canon de la primera sociología ecuatoriana

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Íconos - Revista de Ciencias…•2021

    La sociología como disciplina académica comienza en el Ecuador hacia 1915. La creación de la Cátedra de Sociología en la Facultad de Jurisprudencia de la Universidad Central del Ecuador institucionalizó una determinada forma de pensar la sociedad, incluyendo un canon de clásicos en el área. La formación de una escuela de pensamiento que se extendió hasta la década de los 50 perpetuó esta institucionalización particular, que ocasionó problemas cua…

  • Verdades y mentiras sobre la Covid-19 en Ecuador

    Open Access•P Altmann, Rafael Polo et al.•ARTICLE•Sociedade e Cultura•2021

    La pandemia de COVID-19 ha significado una crisis importante para el Ecuador. Afectó gravemente a la situación económica de la población e implicó decisiones inmediatas en materia educativa, así como incertidumbre y expectativas negativas en lo laboral. Como experimento social involuntario, mostró los quiebres en tres tipos de conocimientos: el conocimiento práctico y cotidiano de la población, el conocimiento científico y sobre la ciencia, y el …

  • El saber propio como emancipación. El yachay tinkuy entre sociología y movimiento indígena en el Ecuador

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Revista Sarance•2022

    La sociología académica en el Ecuador es, desde comienzos del siglo XX, productora de conocimiento legítimo sobre la sociedad. Este conocimiento parte de una concepción previa que refuerza mecanismos de exclusión. Lo indígena es entendido en términos de racialización hegemónica, lo cual lleva a que la población indígena sea considerada como necesitada de protección paternalista y, en consecuencia, el movimiento indígena sea invisibilizado. Con el…

  • Between Justice and Money

    Open Access•Katiuska King, P Altmann•ARTICLE•International Journal for the…•2022

  • Inequality in Ecuadorian Sociology of the 1950s and 1960s

    P Altmann•ARTICLE•Global Intellectual History•2022•References: 4

    Heavy inequalities mark Ecuador. Ecuadorian sociology was always aware of this. Inequality is a central political language of academic sociology in Ecuador and the main field of contact with global sociology, politics, and other local traditions. This is why the treatment of inequality by sociologists in Ecuador shows in an exemplary manner the conceptual shifts taking place – including the local relation to global tendencies in the sense of a gl…

  • Ecuadorian Sociology or the Institutionalization of a Strange Discipline

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Revue d Histoire des Sciences…•2023•References: 5

    Sociology in Ecuador has existed as an academic discipline since 1915 and since the 1960s as a degree program. Those over 100 years are marked by several harsh ruptures and less visible changes in general tendencies. One main factor related to both ruptures and tendencies are the institutions and institutionalizations of and around sociology. They include universities, professional or cultural associations, journals, the state—but also national a…

  • New classics for the new science - re-reading the basis of sociology in Ecuador until the 1950s

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Tapuya Latin American Science…•2023•References: 11

    Professional sociology in Ecuador started with the first chair in sociology in 1915. This led to a series of foundational texts during the 1920s and 30s that sought to define what sociology is while applying it to core aspects of Ecuadorian society. While this time was – in the Global North- marked by a growing centralization on the theories of Durkheim and Weber, the Ecuadorian sociologists preferred other thinkers in order to understand society…

  • Indigenous Movements in the Andes in the Twenty-First Century

    Open Access•P Altmann•ARTICLE•Latin American Research Review•2024

    This essay reviews the following works:Indianidad evanescente en los Andes de Ecuador. By Víctor Bretón Solo de Zaldívar. Quito: FLACSO Ecuador; Ediciones Universitat de Lleida, 2022. Pp. xxxix + 372. €22.00 paperback, free downloadable e-book. ISBN: 9789978676301.Indigene Autonomie in Lateinamerika: Zwischen Selbstbestimmung und staatlicher Kontrolle. By Michael Fackler. Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript, 2021. Pp. 322. €60.00 hardcover, €60.00 e-b…

  • Ecological Natives and Indigenous Class Warriors

    P Altmann•BOOK•Ecological Natives and Indigenous…•2025

    The Indigenous movement in Ecuador was one of the most influential social movements in Latin America during the 1990s. It had a high mobilization capability, formed broad alliances, and had a clear discourse. However, since the early 2000s, it has been in crisis due to problems with national leadership. This only changed in October 2019 when a national uprising led to the movement’s reappearance in political attention, the reconstruction of allia…

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