Trayectorias del Sur: Desplazamientos y conformaciones de las naciones diversas de Ecuador y Etiopía

This article provides a comparative analysis of the distinct policies for the state management of national diversity in Ecuador and Ethiopia. We argue that these policies have been configured to a great extent within international debates regarding the understanding of unequal differences; regarding the definitions of the indigenous and the ethnic; and finally, regarding the possibilities of national coexistence between diverse groups historically hierarchized in social and political structures of power. Given that these discussions and debates on the institutionalization of the diverse nation...