Download PDFOpen PDF in browserHydrosocial territories and their implications for critical social work: Exploring tensions and encounters around water in the Waorani indigenous territory, Ecuadorian AmazonEasyChair Preprint 743319 pages•Date: February 7, 2022AbstractThe Escuela Intergeneracional Wiñenani (girls, boys and young people) - Pikenani (wise elders) project designed from critical social work in an indigenous territory of recent contact in Ecuador, has allowed defining several intervention objectives of the scientific discipline in question. One of them is the strengthening of the social fabric through intergenerational dialogue. Regarding the management of their water resources, the different visions that these actors have about their hydrosocial territory show an interaction that is woven from common visions about the importance of their water assets and tensions around their utility, both discursive and practice. This reflection is useful to understand the plurality in the permanent territorial construction, which critical social work proposes. Keyphrases: Hydrosocial Territory, Territory Construction, critical social work, water resources
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