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In 1988, the first bilingual educational model in Latin America, managed autonomously by an indigenous social movement, was institutionalized in Ecuador. The will was to challenge the hierarchies of knowledge and an exclusive society. Since the colonial period, the indigenous population, their languages, knowledge and practices had been confined to a subordinate and invisible condition. It had been done through discourses and measures that imagined and manufactured 'the other as other', and reduced it to the space of the non-human, in order to legitimize exploitation and oppression. The indigenous movement, creator of the project, broke into history with the 1990 uprising, and presented itself as a subversive force whose purpose was to decolonize the Ecuadorian racist imaginary. He proposed a political and epistemological challenge, to build what Latin American critical thinking has called "critical interculturality." This proposal, different from multiculturalism, is forged in a counter-discourse that is based on creating a group ('we, the indigenous people') linked by centuries of discrimination, and an 'ancestral' and 'millennial' culture, which is recreated and reinvented claiming a new identity. In this book, the author analyzes the historical reasons why the Intercultural Bilingual Education (EIB) project emerged in Ecuador. In addition, the tensions between this, aimed at decolonizing knowledge and subverting racialized hierarchies, and how it was applied in a State that declares itself 'intercultural and plurinational'. Through an analysis that is historically based and solidly anchored in field work, she will try to answer the multiple questions that arise in the daily practice of the project.

James Hankins is one of the most important specialists in the history of Renaissance humanists' political thought. His book on Renaissance Platonism is a mandatory reference for studies on the time, as well as his articles on Leonardo Bruni and "civic humanism." In this recent book, he brings together the work of many years. It consists of twenty-one chapters and three appendices. The first two are translations of Latin texts into English. The first of these is a passage from Petrarch's De vita solitaria. The second is a passage from the Bruni's History and the third is a Francesco Patrizi's list of editions. ; James Hankins es uno de los más importantes especialistas en la historia del pensamiento político de los humanistas del Renacimiento. Su libro sobre el platonismo del Renacimiento es de referencia obligada para los estudios sobre la época, así como sus artículos sobre Leonardo Bruni y el "humanismo cívico". En este reciente libro reúne el trabajo de muchos años. Consta de veintiún capítulos y tres apéndices. Los dos primeros son traducciones de textos latinos al inglés. El primero de ellos es un pasaje del De vita solitaria de Petrarca. El segundo es un pasaje de la Historia de Bruni y el tercero es una lista de ediciones de Francesco Patrizi.