Browsing by Author "Suarez Ontaneda, Maka"

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Corrigendum to “Eating healthy”: distrust of expert nutritional knowledge among elderly adults [Appetite 165 (1 October 2021) 105289] (Appetite (2021) 165, (S0195666321001963), (10.1016/j.appet.2021.105289))
(2022) Suarez Ontaneda, Maka; Abril Ulloa, Sandra Victoria; Torres Carrasco, Maria Elissa; Encalada Torres, Lorena Esperanza; Kuritzky, Amy; Morales Avilez, Diana Elizabeth
The authors regret to inform that the affiliation of the author María Elissa Torres is wrong, she made this research and writing as part of Universidad de Cuenca, in Cuenca, Ecuador not in UDLA, Quito, Ecuador as it is published. The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Infraestructura de agua: las interrelaciones entre los conflictos legales, la materialidad de las construcciones para el agua y la migración
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2021-09-08) Yanza Tigre, Aida Patricia; Suarez Ontaneda, Maka
This thesis provides an ethnographic description of social structures by studying the evolution of the water infrastructure in Xirapamba, a community located approximately 3,100 meters above sea level in the Ecuadorian Andes. Here, there is little flat land and water has always been a problem due to its scarcity. In Ecuador, the 1972 "Water Law'' established that water does not belong to any person but, is a public asset. This research documents how long-standing rivalries, family grudges resurfaced with the adjudication of water distribution which, in turn, affected people's education, migration, and health. It also illustrates how skin color, perception of social class, ethnicity, surnames, and gender roles were impacted by the construction of “new” infrastructures over time. However, to this day, long after the water pipes were buried in the ground and disrupted the daily life of the community, there are unsolved problems among families that began with the way the water was distributed and they continue to be visible because some families no longer speak to each other and sit on opposite sides of the church at Sunday mass.
La distribución del espacio público desde una mirada intercultural. El caso del Parque Calderón y sus alrededores en la ciudad de Cuenca
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2020-07-09) Quichimbo Saquichagua, Fausto Fabricio; Suarez Ontaneda, Maka
This research presents an analyze of the distribution of public space from an intercultural perspective. Through urban regeneration processes, the relationships and exchanges among the population that converge in these spaces, such as: craftsmen/women, merchants, foreigners, tourists, among others. Mainly we focus on Calderón park and its surroundings. By space distribution we mean physical distribution of working spaces, the way jobs and activities are carried out, and the way in which organization, meeting, participation, consensus and dissent in public spaces also make up that distribution. Critical interculturality focuses on questioning social structures, institutions and relationships to break down a structure of colonial power and set up an integrated society with more equal opportunities, based on recognition, interaction, understanding and respect. The reflection I propose centers on gender, class, and ethnic discrimination and how it emerges in public spaces as well as how it is transformed through spaces of resistance and protest. The last section explores interculturality as marked by power and structural violence, meaning entrenched ethnic, religious, gender and class differences. It also presents a section on how government agencies may promote concrete actions through public policies for building a common good in public spaces. This research is qualitative with an ethnographic approach. I divide it into two moments: literature review and field work, and observation and interviews. It also analyzes the space of Calderón Park‘s gazebo (an iconic space) as a determinant of interculturality in public spaces through press archives. This research makes evident existing asymmetries and the lack of participatory processes in the construction of public space. In this sense, I argue interculturality has the potential to act as a means of forgrounding the right to the city for all by addressing social problems present in the city
Objetos desobedientes: escraches y la lucha por la vivienda en la PAH
(2019) Suarez Ontaneda, Maka
This article describes the material culture of street politics of the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH) during its escrache campaign, a specific type of performative activism used to pressure politicians to change Spain’s mortgagelaw. By focusing on giant cardboard circles used during these protests, I explore how particular objects have the ability to reframe where and how politics takes place. Based on ethnographic material, the article shows the making and use of these giant circles in order to theorize the notion of “disobedient objects”. It focuses on three aspects: how these giant circles produced a specific type of political assembly, how they became political tools for subverting the dominant narrative in Spain’s financial crisis, and how they turned into key elements for questioning the morality of mortgage debt and indebtedness.
Por qué estoy de visita en este lugar? Imaginarios del turismo en Cuenca, Ecuador
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2022-09-27) Estrella Durán, Mateo Julián; Suarez Ontaneda, Maka
In this academic work I examine from an anthropological point of view, some ideas to understand tourism as a social phenomenon, ideas that influence the construction of Cuenca as a tourism destination. First by conducting an initial contextualization that discusses about authenticity, heritage, the imaginary of the inhabitants in the construction of their idea of city, analyzing the conception of a tourist destination through the motivations, interests, and conflicts of its inhabitants. actors and the role of the public sector in this construction. Next, the tourist fact is studied through two different ways of seeing it, the first expressed in the criteria and imaginaries of the tourists who visit the city and the second according to the vision of the businessmen who receive and manage them. People who wish to visit Cuenca participate in the construction of an imaginary city that, at the time of experiencing the tourist visit, is affirmed, or rejected according to their experiences. On their side, the business owners, the authorities, and the local community participate - in greater or lesser extent - of this same city imaginary construction, often transforming the city into a commodity to be sold to tourists. The results are expressed in bringing to light those imaginaries, from whose analysis, reflection and debate, important inputs can be obtained on the strategic vision of local tourism that supports the development and management tourism in Cuenca.
'The Best Investment of Your Life': Mortgage Lending and Transnational Care among Ecuadorian Migrant Women in Barcelona
(2020) Suarez Ontaneda, Maka
After Ecuador's worst economic downturn in 1999, women left the country in the thousands. They migrated for economic reasons but also hoping to distance themselves from gendered duties and obligations that confined them to oppressive feminine roles. Less than a decade later they bought into Spain's housing bubble in an effort to 'make up' for their departure. I argue that Ecuadorian migrant women's decisions to buy mortgaged homes in Barcelona were in part informed by their conceptualizations of domesticity, care giving, and motherhood. For women portrayed as culpables or 'culprits' for leaving Ecuador and failing to upkeep their caregiving responsibilities in their country of origin, the promise of homeownership became a way of accomplishing complex forms of transnational caregiving as well as upward mobility. This article focuses on gendered conceptualizations of care, motherhood, and kinship amongst Ecuadorian migrant women and the relationship these notions have with housing financialization.