Brainstorm Week 8, Grace Burchett

The grassroots feminista movement and indigenous struggles for emancipation in Ecuador are connected to the practice of resilience by asserting that “nature has the right to exist, persist, maintain, and regenerate it’s vital cycles, structure, functions, and it’s processes in evolution.” By incorporating these rights for the earth into the constitution, it highlights the priorities of not just the national government, but also the people. At its very core, the treatment of the earth is going to be determined by individual and community interactions with the earth, not words written on a piece of paper. Despite this, adding an amendment to the constitution sets a foundation of rights for the earth that can continue to be upheld with the proper action. 

When reading the second article in the “Bolivian Studies Journal” I was interested in the translations between Spanish and English. In one of my other classes we are talking about how cultural ideas may get lost in translation, and I’m wondering if there are any terms that carry a certain weight in one language that gets lost in translation. This makes the grassroots feminista movements all the more important because it connects with people throughout a community and can prevent certain cultural implications from being lost when written in another language.