Lectura crítica de la historia de los cimarrones de Esmeraldas (Ecuador) durante los siglos XVI-XVIII

Abstract

This article proposes a critical review of marronage history in Esmeraldas considering a modernity-coloniality point of view which allows to put in existential key subaltern and local histories. From this critical perspective, it is intended to highlight the agency of the local subjects to work a territorial and political hegemony. The diversity of resistances is considered as a life project. It offers a shift from a traditional perception of time in which memory is only a remembering mechanism to a different idea in which the past constitutes an instrument for learning. This shift, through the revelation of local dynamics performed by afro-ecuadorian and afro-descendent agents, allows to enlighten the agency of marronage as a political device. The proposal suggests to think the marronage as a process of restitution and reparation of its existence but also as a way to claim a political project. It is intended to show how the struggle for freedom and autonomy are, even now, necessary and completely in force. (English)