Interculturalidad. Diálogos teórico prácticos para la gestión del cantón Cuenca – Ecuador

Abstract

Although the issue of interculturality is a constitutional priority in Ecuador, in local planning instruments it goes inadvertent. This problem also characterizes the territory of Cuenca. In this perspective, interculturality does not entail greater significance in the 2011 and 2015 Territorial Organizational Planning. This devaluation behoves to a limited concept of culture, which reduces the term to meanings of tangible heritage. Therefore, the objective of text focuses on developingdialogues between practice and theory from decolonial, marxist, post-structural and feminist contributions, and since an attempt to formulate the intercultural theme as a public policy in the institutional management of the Cuenca's Autonomous Decentralized Government. Notwithstanding this aspect be present in the analysis, its functionality is restricted to the formal aspects of the aforementioned governmental plans