The Plurinational Indigenous City Against Urban Colonialism

The indigenous disputes of Amazonian urbanization have a profuse recent literature with very varied and important contributions around the critique of urban whitening. In this contribution the paper weaves a dialogue between these contributions and the literature on urban settler colonialism, in order to think about how the plurinationality declared constitutional in Ecuador and Bolivia contributes to the struggle against urban whitewashing. Methodologically, it relates a series of forms of indigenous disputes of the urban process historically, to make a grounded contribution in three specific places where this dispute acquires more anti-systemic features. The dominant forms of creation of new urban peripheries around oil ports, mining enclaves and provincial capitals, show different strategies of location and resignification of the city of different popular-indigenous subjects in the Amazon. This approach allows to rethink, from the periphery of the periphery, an approach to urban whitening that proposes to make the world's cities plurinational.