Abstract

This article explores the implications of emergent neoliberal temporalities for the ongoing temporal marking of Indigenous peoples through an analysis of Ecuadorian white-elite narratives of national futures during and immediately following Ecuador's 1995 Cenepa War with Peru. Specifically, it analyses white-elites' assertion that the war represented a rift with the country's past in order to justify policies that continued to treat Indigenous peoples as alien within the Ecuadorian nation. An examination of this discursive strategy provides critical insight into the role of historical ruptures, whether in the immediate or distant past, for anchoring and legitimating elite claims to the future.

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