The Shuar Arutam People are an Indigenous nation of the Ecuadorian Amazon who have constituted an autonomous territorial organization to defend their lands from large-scale mining projects. Organized through assemblies and representative councils, their governance system is grounded in ancestral knowledge, collective land tenure, and territorial sovereignty. The Shuar Arutam process exemplifies Indigenous self-determination, resistance to extractivism, and radical democracy rooted in Amazonian cosmology.
| Creation date | 2016 |
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| Topics | Commons, Democracy, Extractivism, Environmental justice, Rights |
| Context | Rural |
| Typology | Self-determination movement |
| Languages | Spanish; Castilian, ⧼rv-language-jiv⧽ |
| Thematics | Radical Democracy |